Ballistic protective properties of materials representative of English civil war buff-coats and clothing

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dc.contributor.authorMay, Brian
dc.contributor.authorCritchley, Richard
dc.contributor.authorCarr, Debra J.
dc.contributor.authorPeare, Alan
dc.contributor.authorDowen, Keith
dc.date.accessioned2020-07-28T14:34:37Z
dc.date.available2020-07-28T14:34:37Z
dc.date.issued2020-07-21
dc.description.abstractOne type of clothing system used in the English Civil War, more common among cavalrymen than infantrymen, was the linen shirt, wool waistcoat and buff-coat. Ballistic testing was conducted to estimate the velocity at which 50% of 12-bore lead spherical projectiles (V50) would be expected to perforate this clothing system when mounted on gelatine (a tissue simulant used in wound ballistic studies). An estimated six-shot V50 for the clothing system was calculated as 102 m/s. The distance at which the projectile would have decelerated from the muzzle of the weapon to this velocity in free flight was triple the recognised effective range of weapons of the era suggesting that the clothing system would provide limited protection for the wearer. The estimated V50 was also compared to recorded bounce-and-roll data; this suggested that the clothing system could provide some protection to the wearer from ricochets. Finally, potential wounding behind the clothing system was investigated; the results compared favourably to seventeenth century medical writingsen_UK
dc.identifier.citationMay B, Critchley R, Carr D, et al., (2020) Ballistic protective properties of materials representative of English civil war buff-coats and clothing. International Journal of Legal Medicine, Volume 134, September 2020, pp. 1949–1956en_UK
dc.identifier.issn0937-9827
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1007/s00414-020-02378-x
dc.identifier.urihttp://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/15603
dc.language.isoenen_UK
dc.publisherSpringeren_UK
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/*
dc.subject12-boreen_UK
dc.subjectpencillingen_UK
dc.subjectBehind Armour Blunt Traumaen_UK
dc.subjectwoolen_UK
dc.subjectlinenen_UK
dc.subjectleatheren_UK
dc.titleBallistic protective properties of materials representative of English civil war buff-coats and clothingen_UK
dc.typeArticleen_UK

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