Soft ballistic protection

The properties of the most important LCP fibers are listed in Table 1.2. The key application areas for LCP fibers include hard armor (vehicles, helmets), soft ballistic protection (vests), cut protection (gloves), and a variety of composite uses that include honeycomb structure, pressure vessels, and rubber reinforcement. Ropes and cables find utility in the mooring of huge offshore structures such as oil-drilling platforms and the reinforcement and support of optical cables. LCP fibers also find specialty niche markets such as sails for racing yachts, specialized fishing nets, etc. 

Types of fibrous materials used for soft ballistic body armour protection... 

The strategy that we used to adjust the protective zone depends principally on the position of the pattern outside lines of the first layer of the ballistic soft panel. It is necessary to check what kind of protection is provided by the flat pattern defined by the 2D method. The associative link defined by the network of curves and check-points gives the means to adjust the 2D pattern derived from the setting flat of the 3D pattern with the 2D pattern conceived with the pattern flat method. After many adjustments, we obtained two similar patterns (Fig. 8.13). 

Boussu R, Maillet J. (2010) Innovative 3D textile structure for soft body armour protection , NATO Advanced Study Institute Defence Related Intelligent Textiles and Clothing for Ballistic and NBC (Nuclear, Biological, Chemical) Protection , Split, Croatia, 6-16 April 2010. 

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