...James D. Walker; Sidney Chocron Fabrics are an extremely important element of body armors and other armors. Understanding fabrics requires understanding how yarns deform. Classical theory has shown very good agreement with the deformation of a single yarn when impacted transversely. However...

... validation set, nickel-chromium wires were used to record electronically the waves propagating in the fabrics. It is shown that for the three materials the waves recorded during the tests match well the waves predicted by the numerical model. Test and computation results are compared for the pyramid’s...

...Gil Iosilevskii This paper concerns an open container, formed by bending lengthwise a long strip of weightless nonstretchable impermeable fabric and holding its long edges parallel and horizontal. Given that the container is filled to the rim with fluid, closed form analytical solution is obtained...

...J. H. Kim; N. Brandenburg; W. McDonough; W. Blair; G. A. Holmes A device was designed and built that attaches to servohydraulic machines that typically perform material fatigue testing. The device was designed to systematically fold woven fabric and yarns of ballistic fibers to assess the impact...

...T. A. Godfrey, Mem. ASME, Research Engineer; J. N. Rossettos, Professor, Fellow ASME ,; S. E. Bosselman, Research Engineer, A simple micromechanical model is presented for predicting the onset of tearing at slitlike damage sites in biaxially stressed coated plain weave fabrics. The stress...