The pioneering research by Wilkins and colleagues in the 1960s led many investigators to conclude that ceramic armor performance could be significantly enhanced with materials macrostructurally designed to grade from a pure ceramic to a stiff, more ductile material at the back surface. Several configurations of TiB2/TiB/Ti functionally graded materials were fabricated using a spark plasma sintering process. Detailed microstructural characterization of the as-processed material is presented as well as ...
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