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Title Testing of body armor materials, phase III / Committee on Testing of Body Armor Materials for Use by the U.S. Army-Phase III, Board on Army Science and Technology, Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences and Committee on National Statistics, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council of the National Academies.

Publication Info.	Washington, District of Columbia : National Academies Press, [2012]
	2012

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Description	1 online resource (362 pages) : illustrations
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Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references.
Contents	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.
Note	Description based on print version record.
Subject	Armor -- United States -- Testing.
	Protective clothing -- United States -- Testing.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Added Author	National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Testing Armor Materials for Use by the U.S. Army, issuing body.
	National Research Council (U.S.). Board on Army Science and Technology, issuing body.
	National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on National Statistics, issuing body.
Other Form:	Print version: Testing of body armor materials, phase III. Washington, District of Columbia : National Academies Press, [2012] xxii, 339 pages ; 28 cm 9780309255998 (OCoLC)ocn800024907 (DLC)10863806
ISBN	0309255996
	9780309255998
	9780309256001 (electronic bk.)