Current state and ways to increase the ballistic effectiveness of armored protection based on fibrous-reinforced ceramic-matrix composites
The classification of ballistic fiber-reinforced ceramic-matrix composites (KMC) is distinguished, and the review and analysis of the current state and trends in the development of ways to improve ballistic characteristics based on the formation of a CMC with a homogeneous fibrous or hybrid (dispersed and fibrous filler) structure, creating materials with varying properties in the bulk (layered and gradient). It is shown that the greatest ballistic effect can be obtained in the direction of creating functionally graded and layered CMCS. The analysis of methods for producing CMC shows that solid-phase methods and methods based on liquid-phase processes of infiltration of melts of reaction metals are the most preferable in terms of economic and ballistic efficiency.