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Title Ballistic resistance of body armor / United States Department of Justice
Published New York : Nova Science Publishers, Inc., [2009]

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Contents BALLISTIC RESISTANCEOF BODY ARMOR; FOREWORD; CONTENTS; PREFACE; ABBREVIATIONS; STANDARD SPECIFIC ABBREVIATIONS; COMMONLY USED SYMBOLS AND ABBREVIATIONS; PREFIXES; COMMON CONVERSIONS; PURPOSE AND SCOPE; NIJ BODY ARMOR CLASSIFICATION; 2.1 Type IIA (9 mm; .40 S & W); 2.2 Type II (9 mm; .357 Magnum); 2.3 Type IIIA (.357 SIG; .44 Magnum); 2.4 Type III (Rifles); 2.5 Type IV (Armor Piercing Rifle); 2.6 Special Type; DEFINITIONS; SAMPLE REQUIREMENTS AND LABORATORY CONFIGURATION; 4.1 Test Samples; 4.1.1 Flexible Vests and Jackets; 4.1.1.1 Test Sample Sizes; 4.1.1.2 Sample Utilization
4.1.2 Hard Armors and Plate Inserts4.1.2.1 Type III; 4.1.2.2 Type IV; 4.1.3 Accessory Ballistic Panels; 4.1.4 Workmanship; 4.1.5 Labeling; 4.1.5.1 Ballistic Panels; 4.1.5.1.1 Labeling Requirements for Armors Listed on the NIJ Compliant Products List; 4.1.5.2 Armor Carriers With Nonremovable Ballistic Panels; 4.1.5.3 Label Permanency and Durability; 4.1.6 Armor Carriers With Removable Ballistic Panels; 4.1.7 Armors With Built-In Inserts or Trauma Packs; 4.2 Laboratory Configuration and Test Equipment; 4.2.1 Range Configuration; 4.2.1.1 Ambient Test Conditions; 4.2.1.2 Range Preparation
4.2.1.3 Instrumentation4.2.2 Test Rounds and Barrels; 4.2.2.1 Handloads; 4.2.2.2 Test Barrels; 4.2.2.3 Test Barrel Fixtures; 4.2.3 Velocity Measurement Equipment; 4.2.3.1 Configuration; 4.2.4 Armor Submersion Equipment; 4.2.5 Armor Backing Material; 4.2.5.1 Backing Material Fixture; 4.2.5.2 Fixture Construction; 4.2.5.3 Backing Material; 4.2.5.4 Backing Material Surface Preparation; 4.2.5.5 Backing Material Conditioning; 4.2.5.6 Backing Material Consistency Validation; FLEXIBLE ARMOR CONDITIONING PROTOCOL; HARD ARMOR CONDITIONING PROTOCOL; 6.1 Purpose and Scope; 6.2 Pretest Parameters
6.2.1 Storage of Armors6.2.2 Pretest Calibrations; 6.2.3 Test Conditions; 6.2.3.1 Air Temperature; 6.2.3.2 Relative Humidity; 6.2.3.3 Armor Drop Test; 6.2.3.4 Test Duration; 6.2.3.5 Monitoring Conditioning Chamber Parameters; 6.3 Laboratory Configuration and Test Equipment; 6.3.1 General Parameters; 6.3.1.1 Facility Design; 6.3.1.2 Test Sensors and Measurements; 6.3.1.3 Humidity Generation; 6.3.1.3.1 Water Purity; 6.3.2 Controls; 6.3.3 Test Interruption; 6.3.4 Conditioning Procedure; BALLISTIC TEST METHODS; 7.1 Purpose and Scope; 7.2 Test Order; 7.3 Workmanship Examination
7.3.1 Armor Carriers and Ballistic Panel Covers7.3.2 Ballistic Panels; 7.3.3 Label Examination; 7.4 Sampling; 7.5 Sample Acclimation; 7.5.1 Inserts; 7.6 Fair Hit Requirements for All Ballistic Tests; 7.6.1 Minimum Shot-to-Edge Distance; 7.6.2 Minimum Shot-to-Shot Distance; 7.7 Backing Material Preparation and Sample Mounting for All Ballistic Tests; 7.7.1 Backing Material Fixture Preparation; 7.7.2 Mounting Armor for Ballistic Testing; 7.7.2.1 Strapping; 7.7.2.2 Remounting of Armor; 7.7.2.3 Backing Material Fixture Positioning; 7.8 Perforation and Backface Signature Test (P-BFS)
Summary Annotation This book, "Ballistic Resistance of Body Armor," is a minimum performance standard developed in colLabouration with the Office of Law Enforcement Standards (OLES) of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). It is produced as part of the Standards and Testing Program of the National Institute of Justice (NIJ), Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice. This standard is a technical book that specifies the minimum performance requirements that equipment must meet to satisfy the requirements of criminal justice agencies and the methods that shall be used to test this performance. This standard is used by the NIJ Voluntary Compliance Testing Program (CTP) to determine which body armour models meet the minimum performance requirements for inclusion on the NIJ Compliant Products List. In addition, manufacturers, criminal justice agencies, and others may use the tests described in this standard to determine whether a particular armour design meets their own requirements. Users are strongly encouraged to have this testing conducted in accordance with the NIJ CTP. Procurement officials may also refer to this standard in their purchasing documents and require that equipment offered for purchase meet or exceed these requirements. This book is a testing and performance standard and provides precise and detailed test methods
Notes Includes index
"The purpose of this standard is to establish minimum performance requirements and test methods for the balltistic restistance of personal body armor intended to protect against gunfire"--Prelimimary page
"This document, NIJ Standard-0101.06, 'Ballistic resistance of body armor, ' is a minimum performance standard developed in collaboration with the Office of Law Enforcement Standards"--Page volume
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Description based on print version record
Subject Law Enforcement and Corrections Standards and Testing Program (U.S.)
SUBJECT Law Enforcement and Corrections Standards and Testing Program (U.S.) fast
Subject Police -- United States -- Equipment and supplies -- Testing
Personal protective equipment -- Standards -- United States
Police -- Equipment and supplies -- Standards -- United States
Police -- Protection -- United States
Armor -- United States -- Testing
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Law Enforcement.
Armor -- Testing
Police -- Equipment and supplies -- Standards
Police -- Protection
Personal protective equipment -- Standards
United States
Form Electronic book
Author United States. Department of Justice.
LC no. 2020686507
ISBN 9781617281433
1617281433