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LAPORAN TAHUNAN
UNIVERSITI PERTAHANAN
NASIONAL MALAYSIA
2015
penyel idikan
dan inovasi
Produk
Pangolin Armor
(Flexible Panel
for Body Armor
Application)
Nama Penyelidik
Muhammad Azhar bin Bakar,
Prof. Madya Dr. Risby bin
Mohd Sohaimi, Mohd Nor
Hafizi bin Noordin, Khalis
bin Suhaimi, Arif Shafiq bin
Mohamed Sohaimi, Asrul
Syaharani bin Yusof
Bil.
20.
Anugerah
Emas
Ringkasan Produk
Personnel involved in activities involving a
risk of injury from gunshots, explosions,
shrapnel, stabbing and impact of projectiles
or other munitions have worn various types of
protective garments, which may be made from
either soft body armor or hard armor plate.
Hard armor must possess ability to defeat
multiple shots within a relatively small area.
The challenge in developing multi-hit hard
armor is to control the damage of the armor
structure after the impact in its proximity.
The most common approach to increase the
multi-hit capability of a hard armor is the use
of hard armor tile mosaics configuration. This
can be solved by physical separation between
the tiles in the mosaic constitutes a barrier to
the propagation of the hard material damage
that occurs during the impact. In this way the
area of the hard armor strike face damaged
by an impact is limited to the size of the tile
or maximum to a portion of two if the impact
occurs across the boundary of the individual
tile. However most hard armor is manufacture
with a rigid design (multi-curvature) to best fit
the wearer’s anthropometrics thus can create
discomfortness and fatigue if used at long
duration. This project study the design and
manufacturing process of fabricating a flexible
armor panel system using compression
moulding method using a 80 tonne hydraulic
press machine. The conceptual design of a
flexible armor tile configuration enables the
panel to be bend up to 120 degree orientation
from flat plane. The outcome of the project
can be used as a novel design pattern for
any type of hard armor panel for body armor
manufacturing industry.