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Silvia Leo gratefully acknowledges Defence Materials Technology Centre (DMTC) for the scholarship for her Ph.D. thesis. The authors acknowledge DMTC for funding, supporting and providing the collaboration frame to perform this work. We thank Stuart Thomas (VCAMM) for allowing us to publish photos of the VPP components he produced as part of the DMTC project. The authors would like especially to thank other members of the project team for their input, discussion, and feedback to complete the present report especially Ian Crouch (ADA) and Aaron Seeber (CSIRO) as well as James Sandlin (VCAMM), Deepak Ganga (DMTC), and Trinath Vishnubhotla (ADA).