Abstract:

In recent years, individual protection has attracted much attention in the area of personal safety, especially stab resistant clothing. Nowadays, fabrics of high performance fibre are often used in stab-resistant clothing. Therefore, in this paper ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene(UHMWPE) fibre fabrics were used to explore their distribution of boron carbide(B4C) particles. The effect of different processing techniques on stab resistance was discussed. Finally, it was found that when the particle dimension was 5 microns, the coating thickness 100 microns, the coating temperature 64 °C and the particle and binder ratio 2:3, the stab-resistance performance of the fabrics was best. The stab resistance of multi-layer fabrics was also discussed, and it was found that the relationship between energy absorbed and the number of layers was changed by hard particles.