MOSAIC TRANSPARENT ARMOR

摘要

A damage localizing transparent armor having one or more mosaic tile layers (10, 20, 30) each having two or more transparent projectile-resistant tiles (10-19, 21-23, 31-33) bonded together along their edges in a mosaic arrangement, and preferably a transparent polymer backing plate (40) bonded to a face of the mosaic tile layer(30) with a transparent adhesive (56), to form a transparent protective panel capable of providing see-through shielding against small arms projectiles and shards from explosive devices. The edge-bonded mosaic arrangement of the mosaic tile layer reduces the energy transferred from an impacted tile (10-19, 21-23, 31-33) to an adjacent tile (10-19,21-23,31-33) of the mosaic tile layer (10, 20, 30), so as to localize damage caused by these projectiles/ and increase the multi-hit capability of the transparent armor.