An apparatus for an armor system includes a housing case, an interior ballistic panel, a frame, a power source, and a control unit. The housing case includes a top shell and a bottom shell, where the top shell is removably secured to the bottom shell, forming a cavity. The interior ballistic panel is removably arranged within the cavity between the top shell and the bottom shell. The frame is arranged within the cavity between the top shell and the interior ballistic panel, the frame including a compartment. The power source is arranged within the compartment of the frame, and the control unit is communicatively connected to the power source to manage operation of the power source.

A method of making a ceramic matrix composite (CMC) part such as armor, in which a mixture, including a preceramic polymer, particles such as ceramic microparticles and/or nanoparticles, and organic compounds such as a surfactant and a solvent, are mixed to form a paste and printed or molded. The part is then cured and densified by polymer infiltration and pyrolysis (PIP) using the preceramic polymer with a varying amount and size of ceramic particles and different temperatures in some of the cycles. The CMC can contain silicon carbide, boron carbide, boron suboxide, alumina, or any other ceramic. The process is compatible with sacrificial materials, enabling the creation of parts with hollow portions or overhangs. The mixture preferably has a high loading of particles, for example between 70 wt % and 90 wt % of the mixture, in order to minimize shrinkage. Curing and pyrolyzing the part can be performed by microwaving. Two such CMC parts can be joined together by using the paste, having the same or a different concentration of particles, as an adhesive.

The current disclosure is directed to an impact resistant material made from a novel melanin composite. It has been found that using these composites allows for the production of effective ballistic protection and blast containment materials.

A ballistic panel formed with a ballistic material, the panel comprising: a panel with a filled void; wherein the filled void is filled with a ballistic replacement material; and wherein the filled void exhibits ballistic properties equivalent to the ballistic panel formed with the ballistic material; wherein the ballistic replacement material and the ballistic material comprise between about 1121 kg/cubic meter (about 70 pounds per cubic foot) and about 1442 kg/cubic meter (about 90 pounds per cubic foot); and wherein the ballistic replacement material and the ballistic material comprise: about 1 part by mass Portland cement; about 0.5 to 1.5 part by mass fine aggregate; and about 0.0005 to 0.05 part by mass air entrainment additive; about 0.005 to 0.15 part by mass fiber; about 0.005 to 0.05 part by mass aluminum hydroxide and about 0.005 to 0.05 part by mass calcium phosphate.

According to exemplary inventive practice, ceramic powder or slurry is selectively deposited at many discrete locations on each of many fiberglass fabric substrates. The sizes and/or shapes of the ceramic deposits vary among the substrates. The substrates are selectively ordered and stacked so that perpendicular through-plane alignments of respective ceramic deposits form selected three-dimensional geometric shapes. The resultant stack of substrates, characterized by many three-dimensional ceramic inclusions, is impregnated with an elastomer or an epoxy that binds the ceramic-deposited substrates together, resulting in a finished composite product. Inventive composite structures can be multifariously designed and embodied to afford selected ballistic and/or structural and/or electromagnetic qualities. Another mode of inventive practice provides for incorporation of the above-described inventive composite product as a layer in a multilayer composite system that also includes a high strain-rate-sensitivity-hardening polymer layer, a hybrid composite fabric layer, a ceramic layer, and a polymeric ballistic fabric layer.

An armor component that includes a ballistic tile made of, for example, boron carbide or silicon carbide, a plurality of wraps made of ballistic fibers such as carbon fiber, and a metal plate, for example, a steel plate, the metal plate being positioned behind the reverse side of the tile and the wraps being wrapped around the tile and the metal plate.

A synthetic titanium-corundum composite includes a titanium alloy and a coherently bonded corundum phase. The titanium alloy includes at least one elemental titanium solid solution and the atomic percentage of aluminum in the titanium alloy ranges from 0.5% to 24.5%.

An kinetic object protection system for protecting a space in a building or vehicle comprising a protective barrier including one or more sheets of a laminated material having a plurality of layers of lightweight, flexible, ballistic resistant material such as woven sheets, nets, or mesh which are secured together using a glue, heat weld, or stitching. The system may include an automated control system operably configured to cause a change in state of the barrier from a retracted state to a protective deployed state, which may include a sensing system operably configured to detect a threatening event, wherein the sensing system upon sensing the threatening event triggers the barrier to transition from the retracted state to the deployed protective state such that in the protective state, the barriers are adapted to be resistant to penetration by the kinetic objects such as vehicles.

An impact resistant panel used to replace spandrel glass panels or aluminum panels in structures that uses an impact resistant interlayer to fuse two porcelain layers together. The panel of the present invention is a three-layered panel formed by fusing a first rolled porcelain layer, an impact resistant interlayer and a second rolled porcelain layer. The impact resistant interlayer is melted into the pores of the porcelain layers to create an integral porcelain panel that can be used as structural elements or small, medium, and large dimensions while having impact resistant qualities.

The invention relates to a ballistic layer for a ballistic multilayer arrangement (1), wherein it is formed by an absorption layer (2, 2a, 2b) that entirely or largely comprises expanded glass (21) and by a ballistic multilayer arrangement (1) with an impact side (A) and a back side (B), wherein at least one of the layers is formed by such an absorption layer (2, 2a, 2b) that entirely or largely comprises expanded glass (21).