Effects of hardness and toughness of ceramic in a ceramic armour module against long rod impacts

• Main Authors: Goh, Wei Liang, Luo, Boyang, Zeng, Zhiping, Yuan Jianming, Ng, Kee Woei
• Other Authors: School of Materials Science and Engineering
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Engineering::Materials; Toughness of Ceramic; Hardness of Ceramic
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/146628
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

A series of experiments and simulations were conducted to investigate the effects of hardness and toughness of ceramic on the ballistic performance of ceramic armour modules. The experiment was conducted using ceramics from 3M technical ceramic, using the tiles Grade T, T+, F and F+ with dimensions...