Yarn Pull-Out as a Mechanism for Dissipating Ballistic Impact Energy in Kevlar® KM-2 Fabric: Part I: Quasi-Static Characterization of Yarn Pull-Out

Textile Research Journal

Volumn 74, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 920-928

  Kirkwood, Keith M ^a   Kirkwood, John E ^a   Lee, Young Sil ^a   Egres, Ronald G ^a   Wagner, Norman J ^a   Wetzel, Eric D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY ABSORPTION; FABRICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

BALLISTIC EXPERIMENTS; FABRIC LENGTH; PULL-OUT FORCES; WOVEN FABRICS;

YARN;

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; YARN;

ENERGY; FABRIC PROPERTY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PULL-OUT; TESTING; YARN PROPERTY;

EID: 6944225256     PISSN: 00405175     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/004051750407401012     Document Type: Article

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