Auxetic materials : project final report / Royale S. Underhill.: D68-2/128-2017E-PDF
"The Canadian Army’s Soldier System 2030 plan will take advantage of advancements in technologies and materials to provide the most effective equipment to the dismounted soldier. This includes lightweight armour with improved performance. It has been postulated in the literature that negative Poisson’s ratio, auxetic materials may find application in an armour system, providing impact protection or behind armour blunt trauma mitigation. During the past four years, Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC) has been exploring as a proof-of-concept, the physical properties of regular open cell polyurethane foams, compressed to form re-entrant structures"--Abstract.
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| Department/Agency | Defence R&D Canada. Atlantic Research Centre. |
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| Title | Auxetic materials : project final report / Royale S. Underhill. |
| Series title | Scientific report ; DRDC-RDDC-2017-R128 |
| Publication type | Series - View Master Record |
| Language | [English] |
| Format | Electronic |
| Electronic document | |
| Note(s) | Cover title. "Can unclassified." "March 2018." Includes bibliographical references, pages 23-25. Includes abstract in French. |
| Publishing information | [Dartmouth, NS] : Defence Research and Development Canada = Recherche et développement pour la défense Canada, 2018. ©2018 |
| Author / Contributor | Underhill, Royale S., author. |
| Description | 1 online resource (25 pages) : figures. |
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| Subject terms | Military technology |
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