Ceramic Armor Materials by Design (Ceramic Transactions, Vol. 134)

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Summary: Interesting read
Review: When on thinks of literature on military technology, pictures of jet foils, nucleared powered subs, and ultra-fast tanks usually come to mind. But one of the oldest and most important technologies in the martial arts is armor and protection against projectiles. This book is a comprehensive treatise on the latest materials used in armor and protection: ceramics. The design, development, testing, and use of various ceramic materials used in armor protection is explained here. The materials focus is on alumina, silicon carbide, boron nitride, silicon nitride, and boron carbide. The book is divided into many small chapters, with each chapter emphasizing the properties/applications of a specific material. Each chapter is chock full of references, and the entire text is replete with figures, tables, charts, with some in color!