NCJ Number
31488
Date Published
1974
Length
97 pages
Annotation
A SERIES OF FLIP CHARTS AND ACCOMPANYING EXPLANATORY MATERIAL TO BE PRESENTED AS PART OF A TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER PROGRAM DEALING WITH THE TRANSFER OF INFORMATION ON LIGHT WEIGHT BODY ARMOR FROM GOVERNMENT TO INDUSTRY.
Abstract
THE MATERIAL RECOMMENDED IS KEVLAR, A SYNTHETIC DEVELOPED BY DUPONT. INFORMATION IS PRESENTED ON BALLISTICS TESTS, PENETRATION TESTS, AND WEARABILITY EXPERIMENTS THAT WERE CONDUCTED BOTH PRIOR TO AND AFTER THE SELECTION OF KEVLAR AS THE OPTIMUM LIGHTWEIGHT BODY ARMOR MATERIAL.