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Advanced Fibrous Composite Materials for Ballistic Protection

  • 2nd Edition - October 28, 2025
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Adrian P Mouritz, Costas Soutis, Xiaogang Chen, Suresh G Advani, Bodo Fiedler, Leif Asp, Yuris A. Dzenis, Chun Hui Wang, Costas Soutis
  • Language: English

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Advanced Fibrous Composite Materials for Ballistic Protection, Second Edition provides the latest information on ballistic protection, a topic that remains an important issue in modern times due to ever increasing threats coming from regional conflicts, terrorism, and anti-social behavior. The basic requirements for ballistic protection equipment are, first and foremost, to prevent the projectile from perforating the armor, and to reduce blunt trauma to the human body caused by ballistic impact. The equipment also needs to be thermal and provide moisture comfort, and lightweight and flexible to guarantee the wearer’s mobility.

The main aim of this fully updated edition is to present some of the most recent research developments in the design and engineering of woven fabrics and their use as layering materials to form composite structures for ballistic personal protection. This book will be a valuable reference for materials scientists and textile technologists, ballistic scientists, manufacturers, engineers, and all those working in ballistics technology.

Key features

  • Includes high velocity impact studies on STF impregnated ballistic panels
  • Covers engineering and ballistic performance analysis of military and police helmets reinforced by single piece fabrics
  • Provides the latest developments in Aramid and ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE) fibers
  • Presents additional information on the analysis of reinforcement structure (ply structure – woven and UD, and panel structure – 2D, 3D, angle-arranged plies) on ballistic performance
  • Highlights approaches of use of materials, inter-fiber friction, quasi-isotropic panel formation, and hybrid panel engineering

Readership

Materials scientists and textile technologists, ballistic scientists, manufacturers, and engineers and all those working in ballistics technology in university, industry and government including national defence research. Postgraduates in above disciplines

Table of contents

1. Introduction

2. ARAMIDS: ‘Disruptive’, open and continuous innovation

3. High-performance ballistic fibers: Ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE)

4. Fabrics and composites for ballistic protection

5. Ballistic damage of hybrid composite materials

6. Modelling of 3D woven fabrics for ballistic protection

7. Measurements of dynamic properties of ballistic yarns using innovative testing devices

8. Analysis of woven fabric composites for ballistic protection

9. Failure mechanisms and engineering of ballistic materials

10. Narrow fabrics for enhanced ballistic performance

11. Multiscale modeling of polymeric composite materials for ballistic protection

12. Characterisation and analysis of Ballistic impact performance of STF impregnated ballistic panels

13. Stab characterization of STF and thermoplastic-impregnated ballistic fabric composites

14. Polyolefin film–reinforced composites for personal protection

15. Ballistic performance evaluation of woven fabrics based on experimental and numerical approaches

16. Thermoplastic matrix combat helmet with carbon-epoxy skin for ballistic performance

17. Engineering and ballistic performance analysis of helmet reinforced by single piece fabrics

18. Numerical analysis of the ballistic performance of textile fabrics

19. Damage modeling of ballistic impact in woven fabrics

Product details

  • Edition: 2
  • Latest edition
  • Published: October 28, 2025
  • Language: English

About the editors

AM

Adrian P Mouritz

Adrian P. Mouritz is Professor of Aerospace Materials at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia.
Affiliations and expertise
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia

CS

Costas Soutis

Affiliations and expertise
University of Manchester, UK

XC

Xiaogang Chen

Dr Xiaogang Chen obtained his PhD in Textile Engineering from the University of Leeds in 1991. He is currently a reader in technical textiles in the School of Materials, The University of Manchester. In the field of modelling, he worked on mathematical models leading to the creation of CAD software for 2D and 3D woven fabrics. He also researched into geometric and mechanical modelling of textiles for engineering technical textiles. He has applied his modelling approach into the prediction of textile behaviour in energy absorption, fluid filtration, textile composites and ballistic protection.
Affiliations and expertise
Reader, Textile Engineering and Materials, University of Manchester, UK

SA

Suresh G Advani

Suresh Advani is Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Associate Director of the Center for Composite Materials at the University of Delaware, USA.
Affiliations and expertise
University of Delaware

CW

Chun Hui Wang

Dr. Chun Wang is a Principal Research Scientist and the Head of Composite and Low-Observable Structures in the Air Vehicles Division, DSTO, Australia. He has a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Sheffield, UK. Prior to joining DSTO in 1995, he held academic positions at the University of Sheffield (UK), the University of Sydney (Australia) and Deakin University (Australia). His main research expertises are in the areas of fatigue and fracture mechanics, composite structures, bonded structural repairs, and scattering of acoustic and electromagnetic waves. He has published over eighty journal articles and book chapters, and over eighty conference papers.
Affiliations and expertise
Director, Sir Lawrence Wackett Aerospace Research Centre,RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia

CS

Costas Soutis

Affiliations and expertise
University of Manchester, UK

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