Backface Signatures of Soft Body Armors and the Associated Trauma Effects.

Abstract

The National Institute for Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice of the Law Enforcement Administration has established a program to support the development of an improved, lightweight armor for protection against handgun threats. A subtask of this program was to develop a simple, readily available backing material for use in characterizing both the penetration and deformation effects of ballistic impacts on soft body armor materials and relate this deformation to the injury potential of nonpenetrating ballistic impacts. Plastilina 1 was tested and may be used as backing material against handgun firings. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 1977
Accession Number
ADA049463

Entities

People

  • Clarence E. Hawkins
  • Conrad L. Swann
  • Russell N. Prather

Organizations

  • United States Army Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Counter WMD
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Armor
  • Army
  • Army Training
  • Body Armor
  • Diameters
  • Education
  • Experimental Data
  • Explosive Ordnance Disposal
  • Explosives
  • Health Services
  • Law Enforcement
  • Materials
  • New York
  • Plastic Explosives
  • Projectiles
  • Public Health
  • Regions

Readers

  • Criminal Law
  • Explosive Engineering.
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.