Transparent Armor Materials

Experimental Observations on Dynamic Response of Selected Transparent Armor Materials

Structural transparent material systems are critical for many military and civilian applications. Transparent armor systems can consist of a wide variety of glass laminate assemblies with polymeric bonding interfaces and backing as well as the inclusion of polycrystalline ceramic (AlON, spinel) and single crystals (sapphire) as front facing materials. Over the last 20 years as the threats have ...

Multifunctional Materials: Transparent Reactive Armor Utilizing Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Frameworks

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Raytracing of Dispersion Effects in Transparent Materials

In this paper we present a stochastic add–on extension to standard raytracing which makes it possible to render dispersion effects more efficiently than hitherto possible. Our method incurs less overhead than previous proposals, is physically accurate and is applicable to most of the currently feasible spectral representations.

Visual perception of thick transparent materials.

Under typical viewing conditions, human observers readily distinguish between materials such as silk, marmalade, or granite, an achievement of the visual system that is poorly understood. Recognizing transparent materials is especially challenging. Previous work on the perception of transparency has focused on objects composed of flat, infinitely thin filters. In the experiments reported here, ...

Evaluation of IKTS Transparent Polycrystalline Magnesium Aluminate Spinel (MgAl2O4) for Armor and Infrared Dome/Window Applications