A Workshop for Planning the Efficient Transfer of Recent Ceramic Armor/Antiarmor Modeling Results to the Armor Design Community: Summary and Draft Plan
Abstract
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. These various programs resulted in significant advances. Most of those programs have now ended, and, unfortunately, the results of most of the modeling efforts have not yet been transferred to practical armor/anti-armor designers. Thus, there is danger that the efforts of the past dozen years or so and ARO's and DARPA's investment will be wasted unless an effort is made to explicitly plan and execute a technology transfer. 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.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- May 01, 1999
- Accession Number
- ADA365227
Entities
People
- Charles E. Anderson Jr.
- Donald R. Curran
- Lalit C. Chhabildas
- Richard W. Klopp
- Stephan Bless
Organizations
- SRI International