Multiscale Mechanical Characterization of Biomimetic Gels for Army Applications

Abstract

Ballistic gelatin often serves as a tissue surrogate for impact testing. Unfortunately, this material exhibits issues such as mechanical instability at room temperature and is difficult to structurally modify. A material system that is not as sensitive to these issues is styrene-isoprene triblock copolymer gels. In this work, two such copolymer gels were compared to ballistic gelatin via mechanical behavior evaluation using both macro-scale and micro-scale measurements. Both copolymer gels were found to have a greater degree of thermal stability than ballistic gelatin, and results based on mechanical evaluation show that the copolymer gels may be suitable as a replacement for ballistic gelatin.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 2006
Accession Number
ADA481959

Entities

People

  • Aaron M Forster
  • Mark R. Vanlandingham
  • Paul Moy
  • Peter L. Drzal
  • Thomas F. Juliano
  • Tusit Weerasooriya

Organizations

  • United States Army Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Biomedical And Dental Materials
  • Block Copolymers
  • Control Systems
  • Copolymers
  • Equations
  • Macromolecules
  • Materials
  • Measurement
  • Mechanical Properties
  • Mechanics
  • Modulus Of Elasticity
  • Molecular Weight
  • Polymeric Films
  • Polymers
  • Protective Equipment
  • Soft Tissues
  • Strain Rate

Readers

  • Nanocomposite Materials Science

Technology Areas

  • Biotechnology
  • Microelectronics
  • Microelectronics - Microelectromechanical Systems