How To Make Ballistic Ceramic

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How to make ballistic ceramic.

My original hope was for this plate to be able to stop the 9mm hand guns i would ve been happy if it succeeded in just that. But i was blown the heck away a. Shooting the diy plate armor the second video is couch potato mike and i shooting the ballistic plate. Lee and yoo 2001 conducted an analysis of a ceramic metal armor system in which the strain rate effect was considered and the ballistic limits for different ceramic metal back plate ratios were derived.

Most ballistic plate carriers hold four plates. The cost for this was around 30. And shrapnel went everywhere. This thing is heavy.

For the 20 30 bucks i spent building this diy body armor it was money well spent. Ballistic steel is very difficult to handle because its weight which can hamper movement during emergency situations. Compared to ceramic armor steel body plates offer more resistance and protection. The disadvantage of ceramic is that it s relatively more expensive compared to steel.

The second video is couch potato mike and i shooting the ballistic plate. How to make level iii ballistic plates. In this video i show you the complete process i use to make a curved ballistic plate insert that could be used in a plate carrier. And tough as a hell.

However in composite systems such as ceramic polymer composites ceramic has largely replaced the steels previously used for personnel and vehicle protection. No bullets got through the plate. Ceramic is brittle which makes it sensitive to shock. So on its own it offers very little ballistic protection.

The downside with a steel armor is its weight. You can easily seen where the bullet passed through it. For ceramic to be effective as a ballistic material i believe it would have to be mixed with something fibrous much like fiberglass. Front plate that protects vital organs rear plate that protects your spine and vital organs and two side plates.

There are several different options in ballistic plate ranging from polyethylene ceramic and steel which i will be covering in future articles. 2003 performed experiments for the ballistic impact on a boron carbide plate and they found that the loss of impact resistance of boron carbide is due to the phase. Now that you know how to build a diy ballistics plate body armor it s time to.