Enforce Tac 2025

Trade fair / February 24, 2025 - February 26, 2025

Enforce Tac is the international trade fair for internal and external security. It brings together leading exhibitors and trade visitors to exchange ideas on technological developments, trends, and current challenges. In an ever-changing world of security requirements, this event showcases how innovations can contribute to strengthening internal and external security.

Fraunhofer IKTS presents ceramic materials for highly dynamic protection tasks.

Booth 365, Hall 9

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Nuremberg

Date

February 24, 2025 - February 26, 2025

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Material and technology development for highly dynamic protection tasks.

Ceramic materials for highly dynamic protection tasks

Ceramic materials have been important components in protection concepts against highly dynamic stresses for decades. High-performance composite armor systems, in which high-performance ceramics based on Al₂O₃, SiC and B₄C are combined with metals, plastics and textiles, are indispensable for the realization of reliable protection systems. The outstanding properties of ceramics, such as high hardness and strength, give these material systems an extraordinarily high resistance to impact effects, harsh environmental conditions and wear. The specific weight, which is up to two thirds lower than that of steel, makes these ceramics particularly interesting with regard to possible weight reductions when realizing high protection levels.

Ballistic protective ceramics

Modern shaping methods, such as Additive Manufacturing (AM) allow to produce tailored body armor as well as to pursue new concepts that enable, for example, a bulkhead construction in a shaping process or the integration of other materials in a component thanks to the freedom of design. Fraunhofer IKTS not only deals with modern shaping methods, but also with the associated material development and characterization, which are the keys to a successful product and close the process chain.

Product sheet: Additively manufactured body armor [ PDF 0.63 MB ]

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Trade fair / February 24, 2025 - February 26, 2025

Enforce Tac 2025

Booth 365, Hall 9

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Ceramic materials for highly dynamic protection tasks

Ballistic protective ceramics

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Patrick Menke

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Dipl.-Ing. Thomas Hutzler

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Johannes Abel