Southwest Research Institute

Isaias S Chocron

James D Walker

Kristopher Charles Kozak

Neal Andrew Seegmiller

Nicholas J Mueschke

Stephan J Lemmer

Charles E Anderson, Jr

Arthur Edwin Nicholls

Gregory N Wattis

Jesse A Beavers

Daniel J Pomerening

Oliver P Harrison

An armor system for protecting vehicles and other equipment against projectiles and similar threats. A track is mounted on the equipment, and an upper sled and lower sled are moveably attached to the track. An armor panel is pivotally attached to one sled and is pivotally attached with arms to the other sled. The two sleds are independently actuated along the track, such that their relative positions determine both the translational and rotational position of the armor panel. The armor panel can be quickly rotated from an undeployed position against the vehicle through a desired arc outward from the vehicle, which increases the edge-on or nearly edge-on presentation of the armor panel to the projectile.

Edge-on armor system with translating and rotating armor panels

The present disclosure relates to a system and method for characterizing an impact in a fabric. The system may include a sensing element woven in the fabric wherein a parameter of the sensing element depends on a strain in the sensing element; a transducer coupled to the sensing element wherein the transducer is configured to generate an output based on the parameter of the sensing element; and a controller coupled to the transducer, the controller configured to receive the output of the transducer, to determine a strain in the sensing element based, at least in part, on a change in the output of the transducer, and to characterize the impact in the fabric based on the strain in the sensing element.

Techniques to measure strain development and failure in a fabric

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