A micromechanical multi-physics model for ceramics has been recalibrated and used to
simulate impact experiments with boron carbide in abaqus. The dominant physical …

We describe models for the behavior of hot‐pressed boron carbide that is subjected to
extreme dynamic environments such as ballistic impact. We first identify the deformation and …

Using two-dimensional simulations of sheared, brittle solids, we characterize the resulting
fragmentation and explore its underlying critical nature. Under quasistatic loading, a power …

Measurement of strength at high pressures is critical to understanding the behavior of
materials subjected to extreme loading conditions. Recent developments have extended the …

Commercially available boron carbide ceramics typically have heterogeneous
microstructures that contain distributions of processing‐induced inclusions. The inclusions …

Boron carbide is an excellent protection material but it is also very brittle, and granular flow,
triggered by progressive fracture during impact, greatly influences its ballistic performance …

Metal nitride and/or carbide ceramic powders, TiC, TiN, TiCN, and TaC ceramic powders,
were selected as initial materials for simulation experiments of superhigh-pressure extrusion …

The research on fracture mechanisms of brittle materials is extremely difficult such as the
determination of the energy absorption modes and the geometric characteristics of debris. In …

Compaction behavior of granular materials is influenced by strain rate, particle size, and
shape. Here, boron carbide powders with different particle sizes under uni-axial strain …

Numerical simulations of pressure-shear loading of a granular ceramic are performed using
the shock physics code CTH. A simple mesoscale model for the granular material is used …