Aluminum foam integral armor: a new dimension in armor design

By B. Gama, T. Bogetti, B. K. Fink, Chin-Jye Yu, T. Claar, H. Eifert, John W. Gillespie. 2001

241 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Civil and Structural Engineering, Materials Chemistry, Mechanical Engineering

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In Civil and Structural Engineering

1. A. Panesar
2. Chang Qi
3. Shu Yang
4. Ian Ashcroft
5. I. Maskery
6. H. Wadley
7. Christopher John Tuck
8. Richard J. M. Hague

In Materials Chemistry

1. R. Gamache
2. A. Panesar
3. C. M. Roland
4. Chang Qi
5. Daniel Fragiadakis
6. Shu Yang
7. Ian Ashcroft
8. H. Wadley

In Mechanical Engineering

1. Christopher John Tuck
2. Ian Ashcroft
3. I. Maskery
4. A. Aremu
5. Richard J. M. Hague
6. A. Panesar
7. Chang Qi
8. Daniel Fragiadakis

Citations in the corpus

• Elastomer-steel laminate armor (2010, background): “It has also been suggested that the failure mechanism of hard substrates can be altered by layering [6,7,30].”
• A Comparative Study of Ballistic Resistance of Sandwich Panels with Aluminum Foam and Auxetic Honeycomb Cores (2013, background): “It was found that the composite armors with aluminum foam cores perform better than the ones without foam cores under ballistic loadings [9–11].”
• An investigation into reinforced and functionally graded lattice structures (2017, background): “Latticed AM components designed in this way will be material-efficient and will offer superior functionality over those they replace; an optimised component can benefit from enhanced convective cooling thanks to the large surface area of an embedded lattice,(12,13) and the same lattice can absorb th”
• The effect of the interlayer on the ballistic performance of ceramic/composite armors: Experimental and numerical study (2012, background): “[26] previously showed that aluminum foam interlayer in multilayered armor system behaved like a stress filter and effective stress wave transmission could only occur when the foamwas completely densified.”
• Dynamic compressive behaviour of cellular materials: A review of phenomenon, mechanism and modelling (2018, unknown): “Cellular materials are attractive for many engineering applications with regard to their mechanical, thermal, acoustic and electromagnetic properties, among which the applications for energy absorption and load attenuation have been continuously increased in transport, aerospace, defence, building a”
• Multifunctional periodic cellular metals (2006, background): “Gama et al. (2001) have investigated the use of closed cell aluminium foams in layered, integral armour concepts and find potentially significant improvements in system performance.”