Ceramics for Body Armour
Morgan Advanced Materials manufactures components from an extensive range of materials for many industries, including Security and Defence. We pride ourselves on our utilisation of core competences of applications engineering and superior materials technology, together with state of the art, fully integrated manufacturing processes.
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Materials
Morgan Advanced Materials offers specifically developed materials with a proven record of performance in armour systems utilising the following:
Products
Ceramic body armour components include:
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Single curvature monolithic plates
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Double curvature monolithic plates
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Groin plates
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Products made to customer specifications
Benefits
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Designed to defeat threats up to Level 1V NIJ, when used with an appropriate backing system
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Monolithic tiles can enable weight savings of more than 10% over mosaic designs. Ease of assembly offers cost reductions
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Ergonomically designed for user comfort
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ISO 9001: 2000 approved supplier
Recommended Thickness of Monolithic Tiles
The table gives an indication of the recommended ceramic thickness to be used against specific rounds of ammunition for body armour. Precise thickness of the ceramic will be determined by the type of backing material used.
This assumes plate backed with G.R.P. or aramid composite backing of areal density of up to 6Kg/m2 (1.2lb/sq.ft) and the composite plate is used in conjunction with aramid fabric ballistic vest of similar areal density capable of defeating 9mm parabellum F.M.J rounds.
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Special Hand Gun
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Sub-machine guns,
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7.62 Tokarev
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Super penetrating and
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4
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111 A
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Rounds
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revolvers and pistols
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9mm Pistol/SMG
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metal piercing types
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.347/.44 Magnum
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Assault rifles and
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AK74
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5.45 x 39.5mm
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All ball rounds incl.
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5.5
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light support
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M16/AR15 etc
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5.56 x 45mm
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steel core. AP rounds
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weapons
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AK47 (Ball round)
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7.62 x 39mm
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except tungsten cored types
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6
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AK47 (API rounds)
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7.62 x 39mm
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6.5
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7.62mm Calibre
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7.62 NATO rifle
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7.62 x 51mm
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Ball rounds incl. ones
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6.5 to 8
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III
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military rifles and
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and GPMG
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with steel mantle
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machine guns
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.30-06 Garrand
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7.62 x 63mm
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7 to 8
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7.62 Dragunov and
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7.62x54Rmm
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(Ball rounds)
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RP machine gun
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PS type ball
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7 to 8
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7.62mm Calibre
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7.62 NATO rifle
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7.62x51mm
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Steel cored AP &
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8.5 to 9
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IV
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military rifles and
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and GPMG
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AP1 types
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machine guns
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.30-06 Garrand
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7.62 x 63mm
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9 to 10
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7.62 Dragunov and
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7.62 x 54Rmm
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9 to 10
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RP machine gun
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Ceramics for Amoured vehicles
With ever increasing threat levels on the battlefield and the need for modern vehicles to have high mobility without compromising on survivability, ceramic armour is today’s solution to providing protection at minimum weight.
Morgan Advanced Materials is an approved supplier to the UK Ministry of Defence and a world-wide supplier to leading fighting vehicle and armour system manufacturers.
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Materials
Morgan Advanced Materials offers specifically developed materials with a proven record of performance in armour systems utilising the following:
Benefits
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Standard range of tiles from existing tooling. Intermediate, shaped and larger sizes can be manufactured to customer requirements including prototypes and armour tile kits
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Complex shapes possible, both pressed and machined
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ISO 9001:2000 approved supplier
Product Data
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Colour
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White
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Pink
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Bulk density (fired), Mg/m3
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3.89
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3.74
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Grain size, um
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4
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4
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Porosity (apparent), % nominal
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0 (fully dense)
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0 (fully dense)
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Vickers hardness, GPa @ Hv 0.5kg
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17.0 (16.0 min)
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12.5 (11.0 min)
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Rockwell hardness (R45N)
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85
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78
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Compressive strength, MPa
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2000
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2000
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Flexural strength (3-point), MPa
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410
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350
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Young’s modulus, GPa
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380
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320
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Poisson’s ratio
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0.25
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0.23
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Fracture toughness KIC (SENB), MPa.m½
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3.5
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4.6
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Sonic modulus (time of flight method), GPa
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380
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325
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Shear modulus (time of flight method), GPa
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150
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130
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Sonic velocity (time of flight method), m/s
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10000
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9000
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