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Literature Review: Body Armor Overview

Literature Review: Body Armor Overview

- Body Armor: Introduction

- History

In modern times, security forces and military personnel use body armor to mitigate the likelihood of serious injury while engaged in their professional activities. However, the use of body armor is by no means a new phenomenon. From the earliest times that man developed weapons, he has also produced means of providing protection against weapons wielded by others, including the use of body armor.
Early man used comparatively primitive methods, but as civilizations developed and techniques advanced, body armor evolved. Whilst the soldiers of ancient Greece used shields ...

Literature Review: Body Armor Overview

Literature Review: Body Armor Overview
- Body Armor: Introduction
- History

In modern times, security forces and military personnel use body armor to mitigate the likelihood of serious injury while engaged in their professional activities. However, the use of body armor is by no means a new phenomenon. From the earliest times that man developed weapons, he has also produced means of providing protection against weapons wielded by others, including the use of body armor. Early man used comparatively primitive methods, but as civilizations developed and techniques advanced, body armor evolved. Whilst the soldiers of ancient Greece ...

Literature Review

In contrast to the male body armor, problems are encountered with the manufacture of female body armor due to the curvaceous shape of the female body (Chen and Yang, 2010a). This garment has the purpose of protecting women’s torsos, particularly the women who are involved in military or law enforcement activities.
In the female body armor that Sirvart Mellian invented (Mellian, 1980), the contoured front protective armor panel was composed of multiple superposed layers of ballistic-resistant plies of fabric that was made of aramid polymer yarns. The contour was obtained through the overlap of the seams that ...

Body armor, not a new phenomenon, has been progressively used by security and military forces to mitigate serious injuries during their professional activities. Soft body armor and hard body armor design became more effective against projectiles and stabbing, and light in weight for the comfort of wearers’ activities. Originally developed by the Japanese, soft body armor is constructed of woven or ballistic resistant fabrics and can surpass 30 layers. In 1970s, the manufacture of Kevlar® was sponsored by the National Institute of Justice. Modern hard body armor is much lighter and effective since it has a large amount of new generation ...

Distribution of Power in B2B Networks

Textile retailers have known amazing growth throughout the world doe to their ability to respond and create customer needs. Taking information from various sources, such as consumer behavior, market trends, economic and socio-political or technological and environmental influence upon business, retailers such as Zara and H&M have managed to develop into leading players of the textile industry. Nowadays information means power and it can be used in multiple ways for reaching objectives, in the business environment. In the fashion industry information is the key, along with other components, for negotiating power between retailers and manufacturers. Because they managed operations ...

BOOK REVIEWS: TEXTILES

Materials for Interior Environments by C. Binggeli focuses on the materials used to create interior environments that are effective for their chosen use and are created based on environmentally responsible decisions for choosing materials. The necessity for interior designers to include the traditionally expected features such as comfort along with new concerns for energy efficiency and careful choosing of green materials have been discussed in terms of Life Cycle and material types.
Textiles: Concepts and Principles by V. H. Elsassar offers an excellent overview of the textile industry by taking a holistic approach to describing the issues and manufacturing ...

Literature Review

Determination of mass per unit length and mass per unit area of fabrics
Introduction and background
Textile testing standard method was instituted by the association’s committee on testing of fabrics and textiles to supersede in part AS 1587-1973. Among many existing methods, it recognizes the technical committee’s standardization efforts. The standard concentrates on ISO 3800-1977. Method or Benefits and Principle of test
The method of standardization determines the mass per unit area and mass per unit length of all forms of textile fabric. Specimens of known dimensions are weighed and mass per unit area ...