The Project

The mass efficiency of currently available titanium armor is 1.5 compared to the efficiency of steel armor. LASTA targets titanium-based armor with a mass efficiency of 2.0 and higher and twice lower the production cost compared to the currently available titanium-based armor.

Our goal is development of cost-efficient fabrication technology of titanium-based armor of outstanding strength and mass efficiency. The suggested materials are a multi-layered structures of titanium alloys and their composites. The key components are:

• Layered structures of titanium alloys and their composites reinforced with high content of TiC or TiB particles;
• Armor fabrication by using blended elemental powder metallurgy (BEPM) of low-grade titanium hydride powder;
• Use of low-cost novel (in armor production) titanium-based alloys with high strengthening ability.

Co-Directors:

NPD: Prof. Sergey V. Prikhodko, PhD

Department of Materials Science & Engineering, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), USA

PPD: Dr. Pavlo E. Markovsky, DrSci

 G.V.Kurdumov Institute for Metal Physics (IMP) NASU, Ukraine

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