Modeling and Simulation of Bullet Resistant Composite Body Armor

Authors

  • Yohannes Regassa

Keywords:

armor material, aramid fiber, composite body armor, fem

Abstract

Composite Ballistic body armor materials has become a better body armor protection as compared to traditional steel body armor in terms of its reduction in weight and an improvement in ballistic resistance[1,2]. However, the complex response of composite materials coupled with high costs and limited amount of data from ballistic testing has lead to modeling and simulation of ballistic body armor with different grade of material becomes the best option to optimize and design the composite body armor with less weight and affordable cost. The long term goal of this research is to develop domestic knowledge, model and simulate capability of composite armors with less cost and weight. As a research methodology there was modeling and simulation by Solid work 2012 and Abaqus 6.10software were used to model and simulate the composite bullet resistant body armor respectively.

How to Cite

Yohannes Regassa. (2016). Modeling and Simulation of Bullet Resistant Composite Body Armor. Global Journals of Research in Engineering, 16(A3), 25–31. Retrieved from https://engineeringresearch.org/index.php/GJRE/article/view/1501

Modeling and Simulation of Bullet Resistant Composite Body Armor

Published

2016-07-15