Evaluating the performance of a unique design of biomimetic armor.

Autor: Mosa, Muhanad Hamed, Hamza, Mohsin Noori, Anead, Hosham Salim, Jalil, Jalal M., Hussein, Hashim Abed, Mahel, Farag, Ibrahim, Raheek I., Mohammed, Jamal A.
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Zdroj: AIP Conference Proceedings; 12/15/2022, Vol. 2415 Issue 1, p1-16, 16p
Abstrakt: The ballistic protection became an important issue in military tactics, it is concerned with how soldiers can possess high mobility and comfortable feeling together with high protection. In nature, there are many example of great armor systems that may serve as a source of inspiration for engineers to design a new generation of armors. Armadillos, Crocodiles, Fish, and many other species of animals possess the best balance between the high flexibility, strength, and low weight. All of these parameters protect the animals from predators without any adverse effect on the locomotion of these animals. This article attempted to use the biomimetic design to combine the characteristics of modern ballistic protection inspired by the biological structure of the animal's carapace. The hexagonal shape and overlap pattern of scales used to construct a special type of tiles in this armor, hence, the experimental and numerical work have focused on the performance of the structure design of the armor. The results of the study verified the ability of the system to convert between the flexibility and rigidity via the self-lock technique, furthermore, many characteristics concerning with the capability to withstand under the multi-hit condition, the high energy distribution between the tiles, and the capacity to prevent the behind armor blunt trauma have done in this work. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Databáze: Complementary Index