Foreword: Gate to Plate—Current Issues and Future Strategies

2007 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 489-489
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Author(s):  
Ryan Marks ◽  
Stephen Grigg ◽  
Davide Crivelli ◽  
Matthew Pearson ◽  
Mark Eaton ◽  
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Hard ballistic body armour plates are designed to withstand the impact of a bullet and protect the wearer, if this happens the armour is clearly damaged and so is retired from service. Mishandling, however, such as dropping the armour, may cause minor and difficult to detect damage which compromises the effectiveness of the plate. Current methods of inspection involve shipping the plates to a central location, performing a thorough inspection and returning them to service if uncompromised; this is costly and requires redundancy of equipment for when not in service. Acousto-Ultrasonics is a method of structural health monitoring in which ultrasonic waves are excited in a structure by a transducer and receivers record the response, any deviation from a baseline measurement give an indication of damage within the structure. Within this paper the development and testing of a novel handheld prototype device is presented, which gives a simple yes/no answer to if there is damage on the plate. This inspection is quick and easy to perform by unskilled personnel. Low profile sensors have been utilised combined with a novel flexible circuitry with built in memory, which does not compromise the effectiveness of the armour.


2016 ◽  
Vol 58 ◽  
pp. 55-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hamadah Nur Lubis ◽  
Noor Faizah Mohd-Naim ◽  
Nur Nazurah Alizul ◽  
Minhaz Uddin Ahmed

1977 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 125-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Yagi ◽  
T. Hashimoto ◽  
K. Sugimoto

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (8) ◽  
pp. 1198-1202 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ayrat Usmanovich ◽  
Rafis Rustemovic ◽  
Azat Iskhakovic ◽  
Adel Evgenyevic ◽  
Sergey Nikolaevic

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