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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 17, 2009
Filed:
Jul. 22, 2005
Zheng-dong MA, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Zheng-Dong Ma, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
MKP Structural Design Associates, Inc., Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Abstract
Improved composite armor designs use optimally shaped ceramic pellets and a web system for patterning the pellets, improving manufacturability, and providing additional structural reinforcement. The result is lightweight, composite hybrid structures for ballistic protection particularly suited to tactical ground vehicles. The preferred embodiment is a combination of three major components: 1) an optimally designed web system that allows armor tiles to be attached to it and that can be easily integrated with existing vehicle structures; 2) an advanced composite armor unit using a patent-pending BTR (Bio-mimetic Tendon-Reinforced) material as the supporting structure; and 3) optimally placed 'waiting materials' which can provide enhanced ballistic impact resistance, energy absorption capability and structural integrity. These 'waiting materials' are structural members that are not active at the beginning of the ballistic impact, but become active when needed or the active members have failed.