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Preface. <p>Introduction.</p> <p><b>TRANSPARENT GLASSES AND CERAMICS.</b></p> <p>Mesomechanical Constitutive Relations for Glass and Ceramic Armor (<i>D.R. Curran, D.A. Shockey, and J.W. Simons</i>).</p> <p>Optimizing Transparent Armor Design Subject to Projectile Impact Conditions (<i>Xin Sun, Kevin C. Lai, Tara Gorsich, and Douglas W. Templeton</i>).</p> <p>Physics of Glass Failure during Rod Penetration (<i>D.A. Shockey, D. Bergmannshoff, D.R. Curran, and J.W. Simons</i>).</p> <p>Adhesive Bond Evaluation in Laminated Safety Glass using Guided Wave Attenuation Measurements (<i>S. Hou and H. Reis</i>).</p> <p>Applying Modeling Tools to Predict Performance of Transparent Ceramic Laminate Armors (<i>C.G. Fountzoulas, J.M. Sands, G.A. Gilde, and P.J. Patel</i>).</p> <p>An Economic Comparison of Hot Pressing vs. Pressureless Sintering for Transparent Spinel Armor (<i>A. LaRoche, K. Rozenburg, J. Voyles, L. Fehrenbacher, and Gary Gilde</i>).</p> <p>Advances in Ballistic Performance of Commercially Available Saint-Gobain Sapphire Transparent Armor Composites (<i>Christopher D. Jones, Jeffrey B. Rioux, John W. Locher, Vincent Pluen, and Matthias Mandelartz</i>).</p> <p>Defect Free Spinel Ceramics of High Strength and High Transparency (<i>Juan L. Sepulveda, Raouf 0. Loutfy, and Sekyung Chang</i>).</p> <p><b>OPAQUE CERAMICS.</b></p> <p>Recent Results on the Fundamental Performance of a Hot-Pressed Silicon Carbide Impacted by Sub-scale Long-Rod Penetrators (<i>Jeny C. LaSalvia, Brian Leavy, Herbert T. Miller, Joshua R. Houskamp, and Ryan C. McCuiston</i>).</p> <p>Instrumented Hertzian Indentation Study of Two Commerical Silicon Carbides (<i>H.T. Miller, R.C. McCuiston, and J.C. LaSalvia</i>).</p> <p>Apparent Yield Strength of Hot-Pressed Sics (<i>W.L. Daloz, A.A. Wereszczak, and O.M. Jadaan</i>).</p> <p>Microstructural Examination and Quasi-Static Property Determination of Sintered Armor Grade Sic (<i>Memduh V. Demirbas, Richard A. Haber, and Raymond E. Brennan</i>).</p> <p>Quantitative Characterization of Localized Amplitude Variations in Silicon Carbide Ceramics using Ultrasound C-Scan Imaging (<i>Raymond Brennan, James McCauley, Richard Haber, and Dale Niesz</i>).</p> <p>Grain Boundary Engineering of Silicon Carbide by Means of Coprecipitation (<i>Steven Mercurio, Mihaela Jitianu, and Richard A. Haber</i>).</p> <p>The Possible Roles of Stoichiometry, Microstructure, and Defects on the Mechanical Behavior of Boron Carbide (<i>Ryan McCuiston, Jeny LaSalvia, James McCauley, and William Mayo</i>).</p> <p>A Review of Ceramics for Armor Applications (<i>P.G. Karandikar, G. Evans, S. Wong, M.K. Aghajanian, and M. Sennett</i>).</p> <p><b>NOVEL EVALUATION AND CHARACTERIZATION.</b></p> <p>A Portable Microwave Scanning Technique for Nondestructive Testing of Multilayered Dielectric Materials (<i>Karl Schmidt, Jack Little, and William A. Ellingson</i>).</p> <p>Ballistic Damage Assessment of a Thin Compound Curved B4C Ceramic Plate using XCT (<i>J.M. Wells and N.L. Rupert</i>).</p> <p>Evaluation of Ballistically-Induced Damage in Ceramic Targets by X-Ray Computed Tomography (<i>William H. Green, Herbert T. Miller, Jerry C. LaSalvia, Datta P. Dandekar, and Daniel Casem</i>).</p> <p>Automated Nondestructive Evaluation System for Hard Armor Protective Inserts of Body Armor (<i>Nicholas Haynes, Karl Masters, Chris Perritt, David Simmons, James Zheng, and James E. Youngberg</i>).</p> <p>Analysis of Hardness Indentation Size Effect (ISE) Curves in Ceramics: A New Approach to Determine Plasticity (<i>Trevor E. Wilantewicz and James W. McCauley</i>).</p> <p>Author Index.</p>

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