About this Abstract |
| Meeting |
MS&T22: Materials Science & Technology
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| Symposium
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Journal of the American Ceramic Society Awards Symposium
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| Presentation Title |
Initial Fragmentation and Granular Transition of Ceramics |
| Author(s) |
Lori Graham-Brady, Amartya Bhattacharjee, Ryan Hurley |
| On-Site Speaker (Planned) |
Lori Graham-Brady |
| Abstract Scope |
As armor ceramics are impacted, crack growth and coalescence lead to an initial state of fragmentation, causing a granular medium that resists penetration through various energy dissipation mechanisms, such as granular friction and re-fragmentation. The fragmented material also abrades the penetrator itself. Hence, initial fragmentation and granular transition of ceramics play a vital role in the penetration resistance of ceramics. Instantaneous crack statistics predicted from a previously developed crack growth model, modified to account for flaw orientation distribution, are used as inputs to a fragmentation and crack coalescence model to predict fragment statistics. Cracks are modelled discretely in a voxellized simulation region with periodic boundary conditions. Neighboring cracks are allowed to coalesce. Fragments are delineated using a connected region approach, with morphological dilation to compensate for resolution effects. Fragment size and shape distribution, are used to conduct parametric studies and propose a microstructure dependent granular transition criterion. |