Hard Body Armor Testing (Army)

Abstract

The Hard Body Armor project plans to develop a surface-mounted sensor system that will add critical dynamic data to the current clay test procedure and develops human skull fracture injury criteria for focused blunt impacts to the human head. This research develops and validates a method for assessing body armor performance against blunt trauma and will be fully compatible with the current testing method. The adoption of armor and helmet design standards that estimate injury type and severity based on biomechanics will allow designers to rationally create armor and helmets that protect each body region and allow the development of standards based on true protection outcomes.

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Document Details

Document Type
Project
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2019
Source ID
429A_0603115DHA_2_0130_PB_2019

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  • Explosive Engineering.
  • Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.

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