Ceramic materials have been extensively used as armour materials for nearly 50 years and
continue to attract great interest in the field of defense technology. As confinement is crucial …

Updated throughout for the new edition, Armour: Materials, Theory, and Design covers
extant and emergent protection technologies driving advances in armour systems. Covering …

This book describes thermoelastic and inelastic deformation processes in crystalline solids
undergoing loading by shock compression. Constitutive models with a basis in geometrically …

Within this two part series we develop a new material model for ceramic protection materials
to provide an interface between microstructural parameters and bulk continuum behavior to …

A numerical approach combining finite element modeling and machine learning is used to
inform the material performance of an alumina ceramic tile undergoing high-velocity impact …

A micromechanical multi-physics model for ceramics has been recalibrated and used to
simulate impact experiments with boron carbide in abaqus. The dominant physical …

We describe models for the behavior of hot‐pressed boron carbide that is subjected to
extreme dynamic environments such as ballistic impact. We first identify the deformation and …

A new continuum constitutive theory is developed and implemented for study of
polycrystalline brittle solids subjected to possibly large stress and finite deformation. The …

Dynamic compressive failure of brittle materials follows a progression from micro-cracks
initiating and growing at pre-existing material defects or flaws, to micro-crack coalescence …

Four pressure-sensitive phenomenological constitutive models for brittle ceramics are
compared to available experimental data over a wide range of materials and confinement …