Advanced Fibrous Composite Materials for Ballistic Protection

Xiaogang Chen, Adrian P Mouritz, Suresh G Advani, Bodo Fiedler, Leif Asp, Yuris A. Dzenis, Chun Hui Wang

• Publisher: Woodhead Publishing
• Year: 2025
• Edition: 2
• eBook ISBN:
  9780443265839
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• Subtopic: Chemical & Biochemical Engineering
• Index: Technology & Engineering

Advanced Fibrous Composite Materials for Ballistic Protection, Second Edition provides the latest information on ballistic protection, a topic that remains an important issue in modern times due to ever increasing threats coming from regional conflicts, terrorism, and anti-social behavior. The basic requirements for ballistic protection equipment are, first and foremost, to prevent the projectile from perforating the armor, and to reduce blunt trauma to the human body caused by ballistic impact. The equipment also needs to be thermal and provide moisture comfort, and lightweight and flexible to guarantee the wearer's mobility.The main aim of this fully updated edition is to present some of the most recent research developments in the design and engineering of woven fabrics and their use as layering materials to form composite structures for ballistic personal protection. This book will be a valuable reference for materials scientists and textile technologists, ballistic scientists, manufacturers, engineers, and all those working in ballistics technology. - Includes high velocity impact studies on STF impregnated ballistic panels - Covers engineering and ballistic performance analysis of military and police helmets reinforced by single piece fabrics - Provides the latest developments in Aramid and ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE) fibers - Presents additional information on the analysis of reinforcement structure (ply structure – woven and UD, and panel structure – 2D, 3D, angle-arranged plies) on ballistic performance - Highlights approaches of use of materials, inter-fiber friction, quasi-isotropic panel formation, and hybrid panel engineering

Table of contents

• Cover Image
• Series
• title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Contributors
• CHAPTER 1 Introduction
• CHAPTER 2 ARAMIDS: ‘Disruptive’, open and continuous innovation
• CHAPTER 3 High-performance ballistic fibres: Ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene
• CHAPTER 4 Fabrics and composites for ballistic protection
• CHAPTER 5 Ballistic damage of hybrid composite materials
• CHAPTER 6 Modelling of 3D woven fabrics for ballistic protection
• CHAPTER 7 Measurements of dynamic properties of ballistic yarns using innovative testing devices
• CHAPTER 8 Analysis of woven fabric composites for ballistic protection
• CHAPTER 9 Experiments and numerical simulations on oblique RCC and rigid sphere impact into pressed and unpressed targets consisting of multiple cross-plied sheets of UHMWPE fibre in a polymer matrix
• CHAPTER 10 Failure mechanisms and engineering of ballistic materials
• CHAPTER 11 Narrow fabrics for enhanced ballistic performance
• CHAPTER 12 Multiscale modeling of polymeric composite materials for ballistic protection
• CHAPTER 13 Characterisation and analysis of ballistic impact performance of STF impregnated ballistic panels
• CHAPTER 14 Stab characterization of STF and thermoplastic-impregnated ballistic fabric composites
• CHAPTER 15 Polyolefin film–reinforced composites for personal protection
• CHAPTER 16 Ballistic performance evaluation of woven fabrics based on experimental and numerical approaches
• CHAPTER 17 Thermoplastic matrix combat helmet with carbon-epoxy skin for ballistic performance
• CHAPTER 18 Engineering design and ballistic performance analysis of composite helmet shell reinforced by single-piece fabrics
• CHAPTER 19 Development and performance of an UHMWPE rifle helmet shell
• CHAPTER 20 Numerical analysis of the ballistic performance of textile fabrics
• CHAPTER 21 Damage modeling of ballistic impact in woven fabrics
• Index