Nonlinear elastic behavior of sub-critically damaged body armor panel

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2011-07-01
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Fisher, Jason
Chimenti, Dale
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Center for Nondestructive Evaluation
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A simple go/no-go test for body armor panels using pressure-sensitive, dye-indicator film (PSF) has been shown to be statistically effective in revealing subcritical damage to body armor panels. Previous measurements have shown that static indicator levels are accurately reproduced in dynamic loading events. Further impact tests on armor worn by a human resuscitation dummy using instrumented masses with an attached accelerometer and embedded force transducer have been performed and analyzed. New impact tests have shown a reliable correlation between PSF indication (as digitized images) and impact force for a wide range of impactor energies and masses. Numerical evaluation of digital PSF images is presented and correlated with impact parameters. Relationships between impactor mass and energy, and corresponding measured force are shown. We will also report on comparisons between ballistic testing performed on panels damaged under various impact conditions and tests performed on undamaged panels.

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This article appeared in AIP Conference Proceedings 1430 (2012): 1145–1152 and may be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4716349.

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