Preface vii Introduction ix ARMOR CERAMICS A Comparison of Damage in Glass and Ceramic Targets 3Brady Aydelotte, Phillip Jannotti, Mark Andrews, and Brian Schuster SPS Sintered Silicon Carbide-Boron Carbide Composites 13Zeynep Ayguzer Yasar, R. A. Haber, and William Rafaniello Effect of Al2O3 on the Densification and Microstructure of B4C 21K. D. Behler, J. C. LaSalvia, E. R. Shanholtz, M. C. Golt, Scott Walck, and K. A. Kuwelkar Ballistic Testing of Small 3D-Printed Alumina Disks with the Energy Method 31Erik Carton and Jaap Weerheijm The Effect of Powder Oxygen Content on the Morphology of Silicon Carbide Densified via Spark Plasma Sintering 39V. DeLucca and R. A. Haber Low Temperature Fabrication of Reaction Bonded Boron Carbide Composites Infiltrated with Al-Si Alloys 49N. Frage, E. Oz, E. Ionash, H. Dilman, and S. Hayun Chemical Interactions in B4C/WC Powder Mixtures Heated Under Inert and Oxidizing Atmospheres 57E. R. Shanholtz, J. C. LaSalvia, K. D. Behler, S. D. Walck, A. Giri, and K. Kuwelkar Simulation of Dwell-to-Penetration Transition for SiC Ceramics Subjected to Impact of Tungsten Long Rods 65Jianming Yuan, Geoffrey E. B. Tan, and Wei Liang Goh The First Static and Dynamic Analysis of 3-D Printed Sintered Ceramics for Body Armor Applications 75Tyrone Jones, Jeffrey J. Swab, and Benjamin Becker NEXT GENERATION BIOCERAMICS In Vitro Properties of Ag-Containing Calcium Phosphates 87Ozkan Gokcekaya, Kyosuke Ueda, Takayuki Narushima, Kouetsu Ogasawara, and Hiroyasu Kanetaka The Use of Bioceramic Dental Cements—An Overview 95Leif Hermansson and Jesper Lööf Combined Effects of Silicate, Calcium and Magnsium Ions on Osteoblast-Like Cell Functions 107A. Obata, T. Ogasawara, S. Yamada, and T. Kasuga Bone Regeneration and Angiogenesis in Rat Calvarial Defects Implanted with Strong Porous Bioactive Glass (13-93) Scaffolds Doped with Copper or Loaded with BMP2 113Mohamed N. Rahaman, Yinan Lin, and B. Sonny Bal Design, Fabrication and Testing of Bioactive Glass Scaffolds for Structural Bone Repair 127Wei Xiao, Mohsen Asle Zaeem, Mohamed N. Rahaman, and B. Sonny Bal POROUS CERAMICS Effect of Membranes in Exhaust Particulate Filtration 139J. Adler and U. Petasch Enforcing of Mechanical Properties of Alumina Foams 149Bodo Zierath, Peter Greil, Martin Stumpf, and Tobias Fey 3D Mapping of Density and Crack Propagation Through Sintering of Catalyst Tablets by X-Ray Tomography 163H. S. Jacobsen, A. Puig-Molina, N. Dalskov, and H. L. Frandsen Author Index 171

A collection of 17 papers from thee popular symposia - Symposium 4: Armor Ceramics; Symposium 5: Next Generation Bioceramics and Biocomposites; and Symposium 9: Porous Ceramics: Novel Developments and Applications held during The American Ceramic Society’s 40th International Conference on Advanced Ceramics and Composites, held in Daytona Beach, Florida, January 24-29, 2016.