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Episode 64: Bulletproof Materials
Materialism: A Materials Science Podcast
Metal Composites and Ceramics - What's the Difference?
Ceramics are very much this case, right? You really do need to measure them at these, these high strain rates if you're going to predict their performance. silicon carbides and dope silicon carbides for these sorts of armors will actually outperform tungsten borides and even alumina in terms of their resistance. There's some interesting material science going on in this field as the introduction of aluminum foam as the inter layers between the ceramics and the metal composites.
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