Inroads in the Non-Invasive Diagnostics of Ballistic Impact Damage

Abstract

The non-invasive/non-destructive x-ray computed tomography (XCT) technique is a widely applicable and powerful inspection modality for evaluation and analysis of shock and/or impact damage in armor materials, including metallic armors and armor ceramics, as well as materials in general. It presently appears that the noninvasive damage diagnostic approach with XCT provides the only sufficiently effective nondestructive modality for high resolution ballistic impact damage interrogation, spatial characterization, quantification, visualization, and 3-D analysis. Several different examples of material evaluation by XCT analyses are given and discussed in this paper, including both qualitative and quantitative ones. However, the full capabilities of the XCT diagnostic approach have not yet been reached and the beneficial utilization of this new volumetric impact damage knowledge has yet to be extensively applied and exploited. Future developments of the XCT approach will be discussed.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 2006
Accession Number
ADA481700

Entities

People

  • Joe M. Wells
  • N. L. Rupert
  • W. H. Green

Organizations

  • United States Army Research Laboratory

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Communities of Interest

  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Ceramic Materials
  • High Resolution
  • Image Processing
  • Image Segmentation
  • Inspection
  • Materials
  • Materials Science
  • Point Clouds
  • Technical Ceramics
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Three Dimensional
  • Tomography
  • Two Dimensional
  • Visualizations
  • X Rays
  • X-Ray Computed Tomography

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