TY - JOUR
T1 - Research on the creation of TA/LOI compound structure fabric and its ballistic performance for 3D curved-surface ballistic application
AU - Yang, Dan
AU - Wei, Qingsong
AU - Xin, Binjie
AU - Chen, Xiaogang
N1 - Funding Information:
Natural Science Foundation of Hubei Province (grant number: 2018CFB309 ), and School Start-up Fund Project of Shanghai University of Engineering Science (grant number: 0242-E3-0507-20-05093-2019-95 ).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2020/11/15
Y1 - 2020/11/15
N2 - As the material for making 3D curved-surface ballistic application, through-the-thickness angle-interlock structure (TAI) fabric has superior mouldability, but low energy absorption efficiency during the ballistic penetration, because insufficient interlacements among yarns lead to low friction. This paper has developed a new 3D curved-surface ballistic material, namely, through-the-thickness angle-interlock/layer-to-layer orthogonal-interlock compound structure (TA/LOI) fabric, as a replacement of TAI fabric in order to improve the ballistic performance. This new fabric has many clusters: in clusters, through-the-thickness angle-interlock structure is adopted to provide the mouldability; among clusters, orthogonal angle-interlock structure is adopted to increase interlacements and therefore increase friction among yarns. The paper has verified the superiority of this new fabric, as the result shows that the ballistic performance of TA/LOI fabric is better than that of TAI fabric while the equivalent mouldability could be provided. This conclusion has been demonstrated by both the ballistic test and the FEA model. Energy absorption and penetration resistance mechanism of both fabrics also have been compared and analyzed.
AB - As the material for making 3D curved-surface ballistic application, through-the-thickness angle-interlock structure (TAI) fabric has superior mouldability, but low energy absorption efficiency during the ballistic penetration, because insufficient interlacements among yarns lead to low friction. This paper has developed a new 3D curved-surface ballistic material, namely, through-the-thickness angle-interlock/layer-to-layer orthogonal-interlock compound structure (TA/LOI) fabric, as a replacement of TAI fabric in order to improve the ballistic performance. This new fabric has many clusters: in clusters, through-the-thickness angle-interlock structure is adopted to provide the mouldability; among clusters, orthogonal angle-interlock structure is adopted to increase interlacements and therefore increase friction among yarns. The paper has verified the superiority of this new fabric, as the result shows that the ballistic performance of TA/LOI fabric is better than that of TAI fabric while the equivalent mouldability could be provided. This conclusion has been demonstrated by both the ballistic test and the FEA model. Energy absorption and penetration resistance mechanism of both fabrics also have been compared and analyzed.
KW - 3D curved-surface ballistic material
KW - Ballistic performance
KW - Compound structure fabric
KW - Energy absorption
KW - Penetration resistance
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85090325443
U2 - 10.1016/j.compositesb.2020.108275
DO - 10.1016/j.compositesb.2020.108275
M3 - Article
SN - 1359-8368
VL - 201
JO - Composites. Part B: Engineering
JF - Composites. Part B: Engineering
M1 - 108275
ER -