Preface vii Introduction ix Responses of Siliceous Materials to High Pressure 1A. A. Wereszczak, T. G. Morrissey, M. K. Ferber, K. P. Bortle, E. A. Rodgers, G. Tsoi, J. M. Montgomery, Y. Vohra, and S. Toller Edge-On Impact Investigation of Fracture Propagation in Boron Carbide 15E. Strassburger Macroscopic Assessment of High Pressure Failure of B4C and B4C/SiC Composites 25S. M. Salamone, P. G. Karandikar, A. L. Marshall, M. K. Aghajanian, J. Q. Zheng, and S. E. Homer Effect of Prestressing on the Ballistic Performance of Alumina Ceramics: Experiments and Modeling 31Aaron H. Gassman, Vitaly Paris, Lev Levin, Zvi Asaf, Avi Ya'akobovich, Eylam Ran, and Felix Aizik Geometrical Effect on Damage in Reaction Bonded Ceramic Composites having Experienced High Strain Rate Impact 41Andrew L. Marshall, Prashant G. Karandikar, Brian P. Givens, Anthony F. Liszkiewicz, Raul Segura, Eric M. Klier, and Kevin J. Doherty Optimizing the Arrangement of Ceramic Tile Periodic Arrays for Armor Applications using a Genetic Algorithm 53Michael C. Golt and Matthew S. Bratcher Al/Al203 MMCs and Macrocomposites for Armor Applications 63P. Karandikar, E. Klier, M. Watkins, Brandon McWilliams, and M. Aghajanian Mechanical Response Anisotropy in Hot-Pressed Silicon Carbide 75A. A. Wereszczak, D. J. Vuono, K. P. Bortle, P. J. Ritt, J. J. Swab, and J. Campbell Comparison of Armor Ceramics Made by Spark Plasma Sintering (SPS) and Pressureless Sintering 85P. Karandikar, S. Wong, M. Duke, R. Haber, Minn Vu, and J. Singh Pressureless Sintering of SiC-B4C Composites 101L.J. Vandeperre and J.H. Teo Development of Transparent Polycrystalline Beta-Silicon Carbide Ceramic using Field Assisted Sintering Technology 109Guillermo R. Villalobos, Shyam Bayya, Jasbinder S. Sanghera, Michael P. Hunt, Michael K. Cinibulk, Carmen M. Carney, Kristin A. Keller, Bryan M. Sadowski, and Ishwar D. Aggarwal Densification of Synthesized Boron Carbide Powders using SPS 115M. Fatih Toksoy, William Rafaniello, Richard Haber, and Steve Miller Consolidation of Aluminum Magnesium Boride (AIMgB14) by Pulsed Electric Current Sintering (PECS) Technique 123Nesredin Kedir, Gary Gilde, and Kyu Cho Ultrasonic Nondestructive Characterization of Transparent Spinel Microstructure 133V. DeLucca and R. A. Haber Author Index 143