A numerical and experimental study of woven fabric material under ballistic impacts

Fang, Hsu Wei; Gutowski, Matthew; DiSogra, Matthew; Wang, Qian

doi:10.1016/j.advengsoft.2015.12.008

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“…Due to the complication and high computational cost of the numerical method, only a few mechanical studies of fabrics have been conducted at a microscale (i.e., on fibers) [17][18]. In macroscale modeling, homogeneous material properties of a fabric sheet are considered, and membrane elements are frequently modeled [19][20][21]. Macro-scale modeling is the most computationally efficient among the three modeling techniques.…”

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Study on Low-Velocity Impact Behavior of Twaron® Fabric Subjected to Double-Impactor Impact from a Numerical Analysis Perspective

Huang

Cui

Qiu

et al. 2023

Fibres &Amp; Textiles in Eastern Europe

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In the present study, a finite element impact model was developed and analyzed using commercial FEM code ANSYS® and then validated via a drop-weight impact experiment. Moreover, double-impactor impact models were designed and developed with different impact distribution and locations of two impactors to compare impact properties. A total of 18 impact scenarios comprised of asymmetric and symmetric types were performed. The effect of impact location on the impact resistance force and duration time was investigated: the closer the impact point is to the fabric center, the longer the impact duration time. In addition, the effect of impact location on impactor failure deflection was also investigated and it was concluded that regardless of the symmetric or asymmetric impact scenario, the smaller the average distance between the impact location of the two impactors from the fixed boundary, the smaller the overall average failure deflection that occurs. The relevance of impact location and fabric energy absorption capacity was also identified. Furthermore, the effect of impact location on fabric stress distribution and transverse deformation and of the variation of the impact velocity on fabric impact behaviors were investigated. These findings will provide important guidance for engineering soft body armor and composite materials.

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Study on Low-Velocity Impact Behavior of Twaron® Fabric Subjected to Double-Impactor Impact from a Numerical Analysis Perspective

Huang

Cui

Qiu

et al. 2023

Fibres &Amp; Textiles in Eastern Europe

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“…Nevertheless, to be used as ballistic fabric, ballistic performance is of the most important requirements. 2,3 Majumdar et al 4 compared and analyzed the ballistic performance of multi-layer aramid plain fabric and its corresponding UD fabric under the ballistic impact with speed of 430 m/s and the diameter of 9 mm lead core bullet. They pointed out that the UD fabric is better than the corresponding plain fabric with respect to the ballistic performance.…”

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Ballistic performance of multi-layer fabric panels considering fabric structure and inter-yarn friction

Chu,

Liu,

Fahaduzzaman

et al. 2023

Journal of Industrial Textiles

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The importance of inter-yarn friction to ballistic fabric has been widely investigated. However, the couple effects of inter-yarn friction, fabric structure and number of layers have not been explored. Therefore, this paper put forward to investigate the ballistic performance of multi-layer fabric panels with different weave structure and inter-yarn friction. Three different structures (plain, sateen and UD-like), various number of layer (1-layer, 4-layer, 8-layer and 12-layer) and three levels of coefficients of friction were considered and their effects on the ballistic performance will be discussed through finite element (FE) method. The impact velocity is set as 475 m/s and the projectile is a 1 g steel flat cylinder with both the diameter and height of 5.5 mm. It has been found that the sateen fabric structure with 12-layer and higher coefficients of friction firstly reduces the projectile velocity to zero, while the corresponding plain structure and the UD-like structure reduce the projectile velocity to 125 m/s and 200 m/s individually, which indicates that when the number of layer and coefficients of friction are both much larger, the sateen fabric shows the best ballistic performance among the three structures. The reasons behind are as following. As far as the structure concerned, sateen structure has more interlacements than UD-like fabric and more straight sections than plain fabric. In addition, at higher coefficients of friction, this structure enables higher stress distribute in more layers and in larger areas than plain fabric and UD-like fabric and give rise to a layer-by-layer fracture but not fracture simultaneously.

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“…Giglio et al (2013) emphasised the use of simulation packages like ABAQUS and ANSYS for high-velocity impact problems by comparing different approaches with an experimental approach. Fang et al (2016) developed an FE model based on a shell-element based approach which could not capture the phenomena at yarn and fibre level. Barauskas (2005) and Barauskas and Abraitiene, (2007) combined the mesomechanical approach with the macro-mechanical approach approximating the lenticular shape of yarns by joining four shell geometries near the point of impact and simple 2D shell elements at locations remote to the impact point.…”

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Effect of obliquity on ballistic impact response of plain-woven fabric

Yadav

Upadhyay

Shukla

2019

IJMSI

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This numerical study presents the effect of obliquity on ballistic impact response of plain-woven fabric. A numerical model of plain-woven fabric subjected to a high-velocity impact at yarns crossover is simulated with the help of commercial finite element tool ABAQUS. The FE analysis depicts that the ballistic impact response of plain-woven fabric largely depends on the obliquity of impact due to phenomena like uneven strain distribution in different directions and sliding of the projectile on woven fabric yarns about the point of impact. The total energy dissipated by the fabric showed a decreasing-increasing behaviour with an increase in obliquity. This transition in the trend of total energy dissipated by fabric came in between 30°-45°, which depends on relative dominance of sliding of yarn and uneven strain distribution.

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A numerical and experimental study of woven fabric material under ballistic impacts

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References 29 publications

Study on Low-Velocity Impact Behavior of Twaron® Fabric Subjected to Double-Impactor Impact from a Numerical Analysis Perspective

Study on Low-Velocity Impact Behavior of Twaron® Fabric Subjected to Double-Impactor Impact from a Numerical Analysis Perspective

Ballistic performance of multi-layer fabric panels considering fabric structure and inter-yarn friction

Effect of obliquity on ballistic impact response of plain-woven fabric

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