A COMPARISON OF BULLET-PROOF BEHAVIORS BETWEEN THREE-DIMENSIONAL ANGLE-INTERLOCK WOVEN FABRIC AND ITS REINFORCED COMPOSITE

摘要

Due to the advantages of lighter weight and higher strength which compared with the conventional impact resistance materials, textile structural fabrics and their reinforced composites have been widely used in the field of bullet-proof. Among them, three-dimensional angle interlock woven fabric (3DAWF) and its reinforced composite (3DAWC) have gained growing interest because of the high interlayer strength owing to the weft yarns are interlaced through the different layers of the warp yarns in the fabric architecture. The structure stability of 3DAWF is pretty good, and such structure may induce the impact energy propagates to the large area of the materials with high stress wave propagation speed. Therefore, the 3DAWF and 3DAWC have great potential in the body armors design.