Poor fatigue life is a huge issue of additively manufactured parts, despite the unique qualities characterizing this manufacturing process (such as low waste material and geometry freedom). Fatigue strongly affected by both surface defects internal defects, metal AM characterized extremely poor quality, porosities lack fusions. For reason, many researchers investigated methods to improve manufa...

Future combat systems necessarily focus on lightweight, highly mobile and transportable armored vehicles. Lightweight composite integral armor systems are being developed to meet these needs. The goal of this paper is to centrally document he myriad design requirements for composite integral armors that serve multZunctiona1 roles including ballistic, structural, shock, electromagnetic, and fire...