Bae Systems, Inc.

Caroline Joleen Morley

Sajad Haq

Michael Dunleavy

Amy Elizabeth Dyke

According to the invention there is provided a fibrous armor material for dissipating the kinetic energy of a moving object which is impregnated with a shear thickening fluid, in which the shear thickening fluid includes particles of a thickening agent suspended in a liquid, and the volume fraction of the thickening agent in the shear thickening fluid is selected so that the shear thickening fluid has a viscosity-shear stress characteristic substantially corresponding to curve B or lying between curve B and curve D as shown in.

Fibrous armour material

According to the invention there is provided a protective material for dissipating the kinetic energy of a moving object including a plurality of layers of fibrous armor material in which at least some adjacent layers of fibrous armor material are separated by one or more separator layers for reducing inter-layer friction.

Protective material

According to the invention there is provided an arrangement of protective material for dissipating the kinetic energy of a moving object including one or more layers of fibrous armour material encased within a sealed encasement, in which the sealed encasement is formed from a textile armour material which is impregnated with a polymeric substance.

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South Gloucestershire, United Kingdom

Caroline Joleen Morley