Impact Mechanics of Ceramic Armor
Dwell and Interface Defeat
- 1st Edition - June 11, 2025
- Latest edition
- Authors: Xianfeng Zhang, Mengting Tan, Wei Xiong, Chuang Liu
- Language: English
Impact Mechanics of Ceramic Armor: Dwell and Interface Defeat provides a thorough overview of the impact dynamics of projectiles and targets, crack propagation, and damage ev… Read more
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Description
Description
Impact Mechanics of Ceramic Armor: Dwell and Interface Defeat provides a thorough overview of the impact dynamics of projectiles and targets, crack propagation, and damage evolution of ceramic armor during interface defeat and penetration. The book provides experimental techniques and results of ceramic armor subjected to projectile damage, covers the mechanics of damage of ceramic armor under impact load, and analyzes the failure processes alongside corresponding theoretical models. Constitutive models and material parameters between projectile and target are explained, techniques for optimum ceramic armor design are outlined, and applications of interface defeat in the field of light armor are provided.
Key features
Key features
- Explains the impact dynamics of projectiles and targets, crack propagation, and damage evolution of ceramic armor
- Summarizes experimental techniques and discusses the results of ceramic armor subjected to projectile damage
- Discusses the mechanisms of damage of ceramic armor under impact load and interface defeat, observing the failure process and providing corresponding theoretical models
- Provides insights into how to design ceramic composite armor that will withstand certain projectiles
Readership
Readership
Researchers and graduate students working on protective structures, defense technology, dynamic behaviors of materials, numerical modeling of impact dynamics and etc. Engineers and materials scientists working in these same areas.
Table of contents
Table of contents
2. Experimental techniques of dwell and interface defeat of ceramic armour
3. Investigation of projectile-target encounter conditions on the interface defeat
4. Investigation of target configuration on the interface defeat
5. Damage mechanism of armour ceramics under impact loading
6. Theoretical model of mechanical response of target in interface defeat of Ceramic Armour
7. Theoretical model of interface defeat/penetration transition in ceramic armour
8. Numerical simulation method for interface defeat of ceramic armour
9. Applications of interface defeat in armour protection
Product details
Product details
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: July 7, 2025
- Language: English
About the authors
About the authors
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Xianfeng Zhang
Dr. Xianfeng Zhang is professor at School of Mechanical Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology. He received his PhD from Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China in 2005. He then worked at University of Science and Technology of China, Fraunhofer Institute for Mechanics of Material (IWM) in Germany, and Nanyang Technology University in Singapore as a postdoctoral researcher. His research interests are focused on dynamic behaviour of materials such as energetic structural materials, ceramics, concretes, rocks, and new alloy materials. Prof. Zhang is a committee member of China Ordnance Society and Chinese Society for Rock Mechanics and Engineering. He is also a member of Editor Boards of Chinese Journal of Ordnance Equipment Engineering. He has published over 150 research papers in international journals and conference proceedings.
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Mengting Tan
Dr. Mengting Tan is lecturer at School of Mechanical Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology. She obtained her Master’s degree from both Nanjing University of Science and Technology and École des Mines d’Alès, France in 2016. She then received her PhD degree at Nanjing University of Science and Technology, China in 2020. She studied at University of Nottingham, United Kingdom in 2019, sponsored by Chinese Scholarship Council. Her research currently focuses on the mechanics of ceramic armor, with several related journal papers published in Composite Structures, International Journal of Fracture and others.
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Wei Xiong
Dr. Wei Xiong is an associate professor at School of Mechanical Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology. She received her PhD in Nanjing University of Science and Technology in 2019. She has been to the University of Liverpool in 2016 as a one-year visiting student, sponsored by Chinese Scholarship Council. She has so far worked on the shock dynamics, especially on dynamic behaviors and applications of Energetic Structural Materials for about 10 years. Her work is now supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China. She has published a book and over 8 research papers in international journals and conference proceedings.
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Chuang Liu
Dr. Chuang Liu is a lecturer at the School of Mechanical Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, where he teaches and researches topics including impact mechanics, penetration mechanics, and dynamic response of projectiles.