S4: Armor Ceramics – Challenges and New Developments

Advanced ceramic and glass materials possess high ballistic efficiencies for a wide variety of threats.  However, performance improvements have been hindered by the lack of knowledge and understanding of the effects of composition and multi-scale structure on the fundamental damage and deformation mechanisms that govern strength and penetration resistance under high-rate and dynamic loading conditions.

This symposium is an opportunity for industry, academia, and government attendees to openly discuss new developments in fundamental research on processing, structure, properties, performance relationships for armor ceramic and glass materials.  For ICACC’23, in addition to proposed session topics listed below, sessions with invited speakers on the following focus topics are planned: (1) fracture and fragmentation, (2) reaction-based ceramic composites, and (3) advances in transparent ceramics and glasses.  Contributing presentations addressing either the proposed session topics or focus topics are welcomed.

Proposed Session Topics

• Ceramic and glass science and engineering
• Conventional, reactive, novel, and emerging synthesis and processing
• Processing and design of hierarchically structured bodies
• Process modeling
• Microstructure characterization and advanced methods
• High-rate and dynamic behavior, including underlying mechanisms
• Quasi-static mechanical properties
• Constitutive modeling

Symposium Organizers:

• Jerry LaSalvia, DEVCOM ARL, USA
• Jeffrey Swab, DEVCOM ARL, USA
• Michael Bakas, DEVCOM ARO, USA
• Kristopher Behler, DEVCOM ARL, USA
• Anthony DiGiovanni, DEVCOM ARL, USA
• Richard Haber, Rutgers University, USA
• Neil Middleton, DSTL, UK
• Ghatu Subhash, University of Florida, USA
• Andrew Wereszczak, ORNL, USA

Points of Contact

• Jerry LaSalvia: jerry.c.lasalvia.civ@army.mil
• Jeffrey Swab: jeffrey.j.swab.civ@army.mil