The ballistic impact characteristics of Kevlar® woven fabrics impregnated with a colloidal shear thickening fluid
By Y. S. Lee, E. Wetzel, Norman J. Wagner. 2003
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Subfields: General Materials Science, Materials Chemistry, Mechanics of Materials
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Citations in the corpus
- Modelling inter‐yarn friction in woven fabric armour (2006, methodology): “Impact experiments [1, 2, 18] 9 have been designed to investigate the effects of yarn friction on fabric ballistic resistance by using chemical treatment to vary the yarn surface roughness.”
- Impact Mechanics and High-Energy Absorbing Materials: Review (2008, methodology): “Lee et al. (2003) develop advanced body armor system utilizing shear thickening fluids, which improves the ballistic penetration resistance of Kevlar fabric composites.”
- An analysis of deformation and energy absorption modes of shear thickening fluid treated Kevlar fabrics as soft body armour materials (2013, background): “One of the significant recent developments [19–26] for improving ballistic performance of soft armors has been the application of shear thickening fluids (STFs) on these fabrics which improves their ballistic effectiveness significantly.”
- Development of soft composite materials with improved impact resistance using Kevlar fabric and nano-silica based shear thickening fluid (2014, background): “[9] and Kang et al.”
- Yarn Pull-Out as a Mechanism for Dissipating Ballistic Impact Energy in Kevlar® KM-2 Fabric (2004, result): “Our own studies (Lee et al., 2003) and those of others (Briscoe and Motamedi, 1992; Dischler et al., 1998) have shown that modifications to the frictional properties of the fabric can greatly alter, and often enhance, the ballistic performance of the fabric.”
- The rheology of shear thickening fluids with various ceramic particle additives (2016, result): “rheological curves show that the effects of silica loading on the thickening of the STFs are consistent with the results stated in previous studies [17], [18], [37], [38].”