Workshop for Planning the Efficient Transfer of Recent Ceramic Armor/Antiarmor Modeling Results to the Armor Design Community: Summary and Draft Plan

摘要

In the mid-1980s, DARPA began sponsoring several programs to develop ceramic armor for heavy armor applications, supported by DARPA and ARO funded technology base initiatives in modeling, experiments, and materials science. Under the sponsorship of the U. S. Army Research Office, SRI International organized a workshop with the purpose of planning for the efficient transfer of recent mesomechanical ceramic armor modeling results to the armor/anti-armor design community. This report gives the background that led to the workshop, a summary of the meeting, and a description of the resulting technology transfer plan. The plan includes suggestions for its sponsorship, management, a rough order of magnitude cost, and a schedule.