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Boron Carbide

Adept’s pressureless-sintered boron carbide enables the lightest possible Level IV armor plates.

Adept manufactures and provides advanced boron carbide ceramics to partners in industry, government, and academia.  

Adept’s boron carbide is a pressureless sintered grade with low porosity, high hardness, a low density (∼2.49 g/cc on average), no free silicon, and minimal free carbon.

Adept boron carbide enables light articles of body armor and aerospace armor.

SELECTED PROPERTIES

Density:  2.49 gm/cc

Hardness:  2750 HV1

Flexural strength: 330 MPa

Sonic velocity (transverse): 18015 m/s

Size range:  Up to roughly 400x400mm, up to 50mm thick.

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