Abstract
The paper presents a review on the prototyping of moulding single-piece woven fabrics for riot police helmet shells and outlines the future work for expending this success into other protective helmet applications, such as military ballistic helmet shells.The work mainly includes three parts: Firstly, the making of single-piece woven fabric reinforced riot police helmet shells, including reinforcing fabric identification and VARTM method for resin impregnation. Afterwards, the impact performance evaluation of the resulting helmet shells was subjected to both FEA and experimental tests. Results show clearly the advantage of the single-piece helmet shell over its existing multi-piece counterparts. Suggestions for future helmet design were given according to the influence of impact locations on the shell. In the end, future work for prototyping military helmet shells with continuous reinforcement was described generally. The resulted military helmets are expected to be better protective and lighter in weight.
| Original language | English |
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| Publication status | Published - 10 Sept 2012 |
| Event | 4th World Conference on 3D Fabrics and Their Applications - Aachen, Germany Duration: 10 Sept 2012 → 11 Sept 2012 |
Conference
| Conference | 4th World Conference on 3D Fabrics and Their Applications |
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| City | Aachen, Germany |
| Period | 10/09/12 → 11/09/12 |
Keywords
- protective helmet, angle-interlock fabric, mouldability, impact performance