Materials Dedicated for Armours and Protection Systems

Dear Colleagues,

A high protection level without an excessive weight is a basic assumption in design of modern armours and protection systems. Fulfilling this requirement lies at the basis of research and engineering applied toward obtaining improved personal and vehicle protection. Because of the permanent development of possible threats, optimizing armours is a task of an uppermost importance, which cannot be completed without advanced research focused on material sciences.

The proposed Special Issue, “Materials Dedicated for Armours Protection Systems” concerns all research areas which focus on analysis, modelling, and description of the behaviour of materials and structures under the influence of kinetic and explosive threats with the final objective of a more efficient protection. We invite you to propose papers in topics related to the theory, experimental testing, analytical and numerical modelling, design, and applications of materials and structures for armours and protection systems.

The papers may relate to the following:

protection against kinetic threats, blast and shock wave mitigation, armors and protection systems, body armors, armored vehicles, energy absorbing materials and structures, terminal ballistics, testing and experimental techniques in protection, analytical and numerical modelling in protection, modelling of impact, modelling of dynamic deformation, modeling of fracture.

Dr. Erhardt Lach
Dr. Teresa Fras
Guest Editors

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