Influence of Geometry and Hardness of the Backing Plate on Ballistic Performance of Bi-Layer Ceramic Armor

• Main Authors: Gour, Govind, Serjouei, Ahmad, Sridhar, Idapalapati
• Other Authors: School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Ceramic Armor; Interface Defeat
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/88208; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/44562
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The high hardness and strength of technical ceramics is exploited to design ballistic armors and their low toughness, brittleness is overcome by joining them with a metallic or long fiber reinforced composite backing plate. The thickness of backing plate (BP) on the ballistic performance SiC ceramic...