Armor from super-heavy Newtonian material

The US Air Force student is developing a "liquid" as armor, capable of resisting a pistol's bullet.

The airforcetimes.com portal has announced that the US Air Force Academy student, Hayley Weir, has created a "liquid" prototype as a bulletproof vest, capable of preventing pistol bullets.

Hayley Weir began to care about materials to create armor in 2014 when doing chemical exercises.

At that time, this practitioner gave 3 materials (Carbon fiber, Kevlar fiber, Epoxy glue) and suggested linking them together to get a sample that could block a bullet.

American Air Force students are developing a "fluid" as armor.

The US Air Force student is developing a "liquid" as armor, capable of resisting a pistol's bullet.

Hayley Weir created a piece of armor and she is continuing her work with the aim of increasing their abilities even further.

In subsequent tests Weir tested several non-Newtonian fluids (with Newton's non-conforming viscosity) along with Epoxy glue, and one of these tests could not be fired. pierce this liquid.

Then she continued to perform other tests when combining Kevlar and Carbon fiber, eventually she created a light and enough elastic armor that can be carried daily, they can The ability to resist pistol bullets with caliber 44 Magnum.

An experiment was done and the experts found that the bigger the bullet speed, the higher the energy, the faster it was blocked by this armor.

In these tests, we found that higher speeds and larger warhead energy would be stopped faster with this liquid armor .

"The bigger the force of the bullet, the higher the strength of the non-Newtonian liquid and will make the bullet stop faster," Hayley Weir said.

The bigger the force of the bullet, the higher the certainty of the non-Newtonian liquid.

Hayley Weir completed his studies at the Academy and she plans to continue working with "liquid" as bulletproof vests at Clemson University (South Carolina).

Thanks to the creation of this material can now be used to produce a series of bulletproof armor and protective materials. Her initiative when completed will be applied in military engineering.

Non Newtonian fluids have viscosity depending on the speed of action. These are materials that can range from liquid solidification, from liquefied solid or thick and porous.

The principle of force resistance occurs in Newtonian fluids based on the interaction between relatively large elements of the semi-liquid mixture, located in any liquid with Brown motion, at the bearing position to react. with mechanical action, the elements quickly line up in the molecular chain and create a protective barrier.

In April 2015, the creation of non-Newtonian armor was published in Poland, at the Moratex Security Technology University.