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AssigneeHoneywell International Inc.
InventorsThomas Yiu-Tai Tam, Brian Waring, Henry Gerard Ardiff, Bradley Grunden, David A. Hurst, John Armstrong Young, Ralf Klein, Brian Duane Arvidson
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Fabrication of ballistic resistant fibrous composites having improved ballistic resistance properties. More particularly, ballistic resistant fibrous composites having high interlaminar lap shear strength between component fiber plies or fiber layers, which correlates to low composite backface signature. The high lap shear strength, low backface signature composites are useful for the production of hard armor articles, including helmet armor.
A polymeric fiber having a surface, said surface having a surface area, wherein said fiber surface is partially covered by a fiber surface finish, wherein said fiber surface finish covers from about 1.0% to 50.0% of the fiber surface area, and wherein said fiber has a tenacity of about 7 g/denier or more.
A polymeric fiber having a surface, said surface having a surface area, wherein said fiber surface is partially covered by a fiber surface finish, wherein said fiber surface finish covers from about 1.0% to about 50.0% of the fiber surface area, and further comprising a polymeric binder coated on said fiber on top of said fiber surface finish.
A single non-woven polymeric fiber having a surface, said surface having a surface area, wherein said fiber surface is partially covered by a fiber surface finish, wherein said fiber surface finish covers from about 1.0% to 50.0% of the fiber surface area, and wherein said fiber has a tenacity of about 7 g/denier or more.
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