Monolithic Ceramic Plates for Body Armour

Schunk’s monolithic Qitin® ceramic components are designed as hard ballistic components (Ceramic Strike Face) for use in body armour solutions intended for the highest threat levels. The ceramic fragments the impacting projectile, whilst the kinetic energy is dissipated into the underlying fibre-reinforced composite materials (backing), where it is distributed across a wide area. The combination of high hardness and low density of the ceramic armor plates predestines our product for lightweight solutions with high protection performance. Thanks to our leading production technology, we are able to flexibly supply both prototype samples and large series-production quantities in reproducibly high quality and on time.

You benefit from these advantages:

• Lower weight than conventionally used hard armor materials (e.g Alumina ceramics, armor steel plates)
• High degree of hardness
• Protects against armor-piercing bullets, even with multiple hits
• Cost-effective material: Reaction-bonded silicon carbide with a reduced proportion of metallic silicon and favorable cost-effectiveness
• Weight-optimized material: Reaction-bonded boron carbide with a higher degree of hardness and excellent protection performance
• Support for international standards: Schunk components provide the ideal material basis for successful system certification in accordance with standards such as NIJ, TR, VPAM and MIL standards.