... ) and AlON are promising candidate materials for application as a hard front layer in transparent armor. Comprehensive, systematic investigations of the fragmentation of ceramics have shown that the mode of fragmentation is one of the key parameters influencing the ballistic resistance of ceramics...

..., and, possibly, high temperatures. Nonlinear elasticity, anisotropy, thermoelastic coupling, dislocation glide, twinning, shear-induced fracture, and pressure-induced pore collapse are addressed. The model is applied to enable an improved understanding of transparent ceramic aluminum oxynitride (AlON...