Journal
JOURNAL OF MATERIALS RESEARCH AND TECHNOLOGY-JMR&T
Volume 6, Issue 4, Pages 417-422Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmrt.2017.08.001
Keywords
Composite; Natural fiber; Curaua fiber; Non-woven fabric; Aramid laminate; Ballistic test
Funding
- Brazilian supporting agency CAPES
- Brazilian supporting agency CNPq
- Brazilian supporting agency FAPERJ
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For personal protection against high kinetic energy projectiles, multilayered armor systems (MAS) are usually the best option. They combine synergistically the properties of different materials such as ceramics, composites and metals. In the present work, ballistic tests were performed to evaluate multilayered armor systems (MAS) using curaua non-woven fabric epoxy composites as second layer. A comparison to a MAS using aramid (KevlarTM) fabric laminates was made. The results showed that the curaua non-woven fabric composites are suitable to the high ballistic applications, and are promising substitutes for aramid fabric laminates.(C) 2017 Brazilian Metallurgical, Materials and Mining Association. Published by Elsevier Editora Ltda. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license
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