Armor with in-plane confinement of ceramic tiles
AssigneeThe United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Army
InventorsSeth R. Ghiorse, David M. Spagnuolo, Melissa A. Klusewitz, John R. Brown, Pangiotis Blanas
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Abstract
An armor component includes a tile having a perimeter; and a wrapping material wrapped around the perimeter of the tile. An armor system includes a back plate; at least one tile array layer disposed on the back plate, the at least one tile array layer comprising a plurality of armor components wherein each armor component comprises a tile having a perimeter wrapped with a wrapping material; and a top layer disposed on the at least one tile array layer.
Claims16
An armor component comprising:
- a polygonal tile having a perimeter;
- a wrapping material wrapped around the perimeter of said polygonal tile;
- and
- wherein said polygonal tile has vertices which are smoothed to a radius of about 0.125 inches to thereby significantly reduce the radial stress concentration factor of said polygonal tile.
An armor system, comprising:
- a back plate;
- at least one tile array layer disposed on the back plate, the at least one tile array layer comprising a plurality of armor components wherein each armor component comprises a polygonal tile having a perimeter wrapped with a wrapping material, and each said polygonal tile having vertices which are smoothed to a radius of about 0.125 inches to thereby significantly reduce the radial stress concentration factor of said polygonal tile;
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- a top layer disposed on the at least one tile array layer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.