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Nanostructural Evidence of Mechanical Aging and Performance Loss in Ballistic Fibers

September 29, 2017
Author(s)
John Howarter, Ming Liu, Walter G. McDonough, Christopher Soles, Gale A. Holmes
It is understood that the ballistic resistance of aromatic polyamide fibers is related to the fiber's ultimate tensile strength, strain-to-failure, and Young's modulus. Ideal high-performance ballistic materials maximize these properties while minimizing

STANDARD REFERENCE MATERIALS FOR THE POLYMERS INDUSTRY

May 24, 2016
Author(s)
Walter G. McDonough, Sara Orski, Charles M. Guttman, Kalman Migler, Kathryn L. Beers
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) provides science, industry, and government with a central source of well-characterized materials certified for chemical composition or for some chemical or physical property. These materials are

Multi-scale measurement for tensile behaviors of glass fiber composites at high rate loading: Fiber fragmentation behaviors in epoxy resin

May 19, 2015
Author(s)
Jae Hyun Kim, Steven P. Mates, Nathanael A. Heckert, Walter G. McDonough, Gale A. Holmes
High strength and light weight composite materials used in various structural components of aviation and automotive applications deform under high rate loading conditions during collision. Since composite structures using continuous fibers are constituted

The Testing Program at NIST on Fibers Used in Soft Body Armor Applications

March 21, 2015
Author(s)
Walter G. McDonough, Amanda L. Forster, Jae Hyun Kim, Nathanael A. Heckert, Joy P. Dunkers, Scott A. Wight, Gale A. Holmes
The goal of this paper and presentation is to give an update of the research effort to date being conducted at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) on polymeric fibers used in soft body armor with a special emphasis on new fibers under

TESTING AND ANALYSES OF COPOLYMER FIBERS BASED ON 5-AMINO-2-(P-AMINOPHENYL)-BENZIMIDAZOLE

September 22, 2014
Author(s)
Walter G. McDonough, Joy P. Dunkers, Amanda L. Forster, Jae Hyun Kim, Scott A. Wight, Gale A. Holmes
Since the well-publicized failure of a body armor used by a police officer at a threat level the armor had been designed to survive, it has become imperative that the long-term properties and performance of new fibers being considered for use be understood

Analyzing a Co-Polymer Aramid Fiber for Use in Soft Body Armor

October 25, 2013
Author(s)
Walter G. McDonough, Jae Hyun Kim, Nathanael A. Heckert, Amanda L. Forster, Scott A. Wight, Joy P. Dunkers, Gale A. Holmes
Since the well-publicized failure of body armor used by a police officer, it has become imperative that the long-term properties and performance of new fibers being considered for use be understood. The range of interest is from the molecular properties of

Toward the Development of a High Strain Rate Testing Standard for Advanced Fibers

May 24, 2013
Author(s)
Gale A. Holmes, Jae Hyun Kim, Nathanael A. Heckert, Walter G. McDonough, Stefan D. Leigh, Kirk D. Rice
The use of advanced fibers in applications where they are subjected to extremely energetic events has necessitated the need to develop measurement tools that quantify their properties at high strain rates (HSR). The split Hopkinson tension bar (SHTB) has

Effects of fiber gripping methods on single fiber tensile tests: Parametric statistical analyses of tensile strengths and failure strains

May 9, 2013
Author(s)
Jae Hyun Kim, Nathanael A. Heckert, Walter G. McDonough, Kirk D. Rice, Gale A. Holmes
The Kolsky bar test has been widely used in measuring material response under high strain rate conditions. Initial experiments in the literature applying this test to measure single fiber properties for fibers used in soft body armor with the Kolsky bar

Effects of fiber gripping methods on the single fiber tensile test: I. Non parametric statistical analysis

February 15, 2013
Author(s)
Jae Hyun Kim, Nathanael A. Heckert, Stefan D. Leigh, Haruki Kobayashi, Walter G. McDonough, Kirk D. Rice, Gale A. Holmes
Single fiber tensile tests using two different gripping methods were carried out on various fiber lengths. One method (the glue-tab grip) consists of mounting a fiber onto a rigid tab as specified in ASTM C1557-03 using an adhesive, while the other (the

Tensile behavior of single PPTA fibers measured by the Kolsky bar using the direct fiber clamping method

June 11, 2012
Author(s)
Jae Hyun Kim, Nathanael A. Heckert, Stefan D. Leigh, Haruki Kobayashi, Walter G. McDonough, Richard L. Rhorer, Kirk D. Rice, Gale A. Holmes
The Kolsky bar test has been widely used in measuring material behavior under high strain rate conditions. In particular, this methodology has been used to characterize the high strain rate behavior of polymer and polymer composites during ballistic impact

The Effects of Folding on High Strength Fibers Used in Soft Body Armor

January 23, 2012
Author(s)
Haruki Kobayashi, Walter G. McDonough, Joy Dunkers, Jae H. Kim, Hae-Jeong Lee, Scott Wight, Amanda L. Forster, Kirk D. Rice, Gale A. Holmes
Poly (p-phenylene benzobisoxazole) (PBO) fibers have been used in soft body armor (SBA) because of their high mechanical strength. However, there was an unexpected failure of a first responder's SBA which was composed of PBO fiber that was in service for