Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Overview of body armor
  • Historical basis for current body armor testing
  • Clay and backing materials
  • Instrumentation and procedures for measuring an indent in a clay backing material
  • Statistical considerations in body armor testing
  • Helmet testing
  • Medical basis for future body armor testing
  • Future improvements in testing methodology.
  • Appendices: Biographical sketches of committee members
  • Committee meetings
  • Additional phase III tasks
  • Report sections cross-referenced to the statement of task
  • Ballistic body armor insert composition and defeat mechanisms
  • Committee responses to the government accountability office report
  • Determining the necessary level of precision for body army testing
  • Statistical tolerance bounds
  • Analytical approaches for comparing test protocols
  • Contemporary methods for assessing behind-armor blunt trauma in live animals
  • Phase I findings
  • Phase II recommendations
  • Estimating the accuracy and precision of the digital caliper and faro laser.