Composite Lightweight Adaptable Reactive Armor

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  • Armor and Ballistic Shielding-Image
    Armor and Ballistic Shielding - (90 companies)
    ...may incorporate metallic reactive armor to protect against heavy artillery (a type of armor which detonates away from the tank to destroy the projectile), while a Humvee is likely to have less robust composite elements to protect against small arms...
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    Refractory and Reactive Metals - (183 companies)
    How to Select Refractory and Reactive Metals. Refractory metals are a class of metals that are extraordinarily resistant to heat and wear and have extremely high melting points. Reactive metals have a strong affinity for oxygen and nitrogen...
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    Composites and Composite Materials - (259 companies)
    Composites and composite materials typically consist of a matrix and a dispersed, fibrous or continuous second phase. The second phase may reinforce the material, alter electrical or magnetic properties, or enhance wear or erosion resistance...
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    Composite Panels - (160 companies)
    ...serves as a skin to protect the core while the core often has higher impact resistance and allows for a stiff, lightweight structure. Related Information. CR4 Community --Aluminum Composite Panel. CR4 Community --Composite Panels. Engineering360...
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    Ceramic Matrix Composites - (28 companies)
    ...for Ceramic Matrix Composites. Ceramic matrix composites (CMC) are used in materials applications that require high strength, high temperature resistance, armor or ballistic properties, and erosion or wear resistance. In addition to jet engines...
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    Polymer and Plastic Composites - (356 companies)
    Polymer and plastic composites are strengthened with fibers, fillers, particulates, powders and other matrix reinforcements to provide improved strength and/or stiffness. Examples include fiber reinforced plastics (FRPs), sheet molding compounds...
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    Metal Matrix Composites - (38 companies)
    ...then the reinforcement phase may provide greater strengthening at elevated temperatures. Metal matrix composites (MMC) are also used in carbide drills, tank armor, automotive disk brakes, drive shafts, aerospace applications, specialized bicycles. They are used...
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    Laminating Adhesives and Composite Resins - (167 companies)
    Laminating adhesives and composite resins are cured using heat and/or heat and pressure. Laminating adhesives and composite resins are cured using heat and/or heat and pressure. They are used for high load assemblies and in severe service conditions...
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    Composite Fillers and Reinforcements - (241 companies)
    Composite Fillers and Reinforcements are additives used to extend, strengthen and/or modify plastics, composites, adhesives, coatings and other materials Composite fillers and reinforcements are used to change and improve the physical and mechanical...
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    Composite and Fiberglass Molding Services - (284 companies)
    Composite and fiberglass molding services perform injection molding, blow molding, compression molding, rotationalmolding, thermoforming, and dip molding. Composite and fiberglass molding services perform: injection molding. blow molding...
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  • Verseidag Ballistic Protection
    Until the recent development of composite lightweight adaptable reactive armour (CLARA), covered under variants, all of their solutions have been based on their Ultrax fibre-plastics composites for ballistic protection.
  • Shifting focus: armoured vehicle protection adapts to new threats
    To help allay concerns about collateral damage, Dynamit Nobel Defence has been developing in Germany in collaboration with Verseidag-Indutes an ERA called 'Clara' ( Composite Lightweight Adaptable Reactive Armour ), in which the usual steel sandwich plates are replaced by plates of fibre…
  • CLARA project means safer reactive armour
    The new armour is called CLARA ( Composite Lightweight Adaptable Reactive Armour ) and eliminates the danger to accompanying troops and others created by the metal plates and fragments thrown off by standard explosive reactive armour sandwiches when they explode, which has inhibited the…
  • Materials and chemical technologies for aircraft engineering
    …1) smart design refers to the use of adaptive and self restoring materials … instability of aircraft; (3) lightweight constructions refer to the … designs made of polymeric composite materials (PCM); (8) smart … a new generation of armor protection, reactive armor, complexes of active…
  • Analysis of the status and prospects for the commercial use of fiber-reinforced silicon-carbide ceramics
    …low weight of bullet-proof systems made with such plates; the possibility of adapting the shape of .... The cost of armor plating made of a CCM with an SiC matrix (dimensions 50 ´ 50 .... This cost is equivalent to the price of a similar plate made of reaction -sintered silicon car .... It should be mentioned that protective devices made of CCMs of the grade SIGRASIC (SGL Group, Germany) have the highest (fifth-level) rating under the STANAG standard for the protection of armored light- weight machines [52]. .... Table 2 compares the properties of a protective composite based on a silicon-carbide matrix and carbon…
  • News [Briefing latest]
    By Dominic Lenton ‘electRic ARmoUR’ could provide a lightweight and cost- effective way of shielding vehicles against improvised explosive devices, according to a major european study. the technique involves substituting traditional thick- steel armour plates with two much thinner plates separated by … tions was carried out for the european Defence Agency by Bmt Defence services in south- west england. it found that an integrated approach to armoured vehicle design which combines emerging reactive technologies with traditional heavy plate and composite materials could lead to .... Portsmouth university researchers have claimed that a new adaptive system for predictive maintenance can actually learn how…
  • ISRAEL ‐ A MASTER OF MODERNISATION
    Also intended for the M113, the two‐ton RAPI Reactive Armour Protection system is heavier than Toga, but provides protection against such weapons as RPG‐7 warheads, and 14.5mm armour‐piercing (AP) rounds. .... Carmel can be tailored to fit a wide range of vehicles, while the `Storm 240' introduced at the AUSA exhibition last year is produced from lightweight composite materials, and is intended for use on even smaller Jeep‐type 4x4s, as well as civilian … while the LAN‐SADOT is claimed to be the smallest FCS which can be adapted to fit any…
  • NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL
    …Advanced low-power personnel/vehicle detecting radar for smart unattended ground sensor/munition systems 13 A09-039 Army Innovative Coatings for Lightweight Alloys 14 A09-054 … forming of large light armor alloy sections resistant to … 25 A09-017* Army Reactive Real-time Planners for .... 9 A09-012* Army Tactical Ballistic Missile (TBM) Composite Tracking and Discrimination Capability for Army System of … MDA08-010 MDA Improved Cryogenic Cooling Technology 12 AF083-043* Air Force Rate- Adaptive High-Availability RF…
  • Emerging Critical Technologies and Security in the Asia-Pacific
    …firstly, the ECT in the defense automo- tive sector is largely focused on adaptation to existing equipment .... Lightweight materials. .... The use of materials such as composite monocoque to shell the crew with a complimentary armor pack and V-shaped hull to deflect blast energy under the occu- pants. .... of an IED detonating underneath them, reducing the transfer of blasts energy and reaction forces to the…
  • Rheinmetall stages LLR demonstration
    High-strength (1,300mPa yield strength) steel is being used to fabricate its barrel and breech, and lightweight composite material is being used in place of steel for the cradle, saving 200kg. .... is claimed to be able to penetrate more than 560mm of rolled homogenous armor (RHA) at 2km .... It fires the same penetrator as the DM53 - designed to deal with explosive- reactive armor (ERA), double … with higher fatigue design pressure limits (such as the L55, which has been adapted to accept the…