Hanlon Erin, Gillich Patrick
U.S. Army Research Laboratory, RDRL-SLB-W, 328 Hopkins Road, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD 21005, USA.
Mil Med. 2012 Mar;177(3):333-9. doi: 10.7205/milmed-d-11-00303.
A number of armed assaults on public officials occurred in the early 1970s, which prompted the Lightweight Soft Body Armor Program to develop modern, concealable, soft body armor. Methodology needed to be developed to (1) determine the effectiveness of the soft body armor to stop bullet penetration and (2) assess the potential injury from nonpenetrating blunt impacts to the body. Extensive research was performed under the program to develop methodologies to assess soft body armor, including behind-armor blunt trauma (BABT) evaluation. This methodology is still used today, and it has been applied extensively beyond the original intent. However, the origin of this methodology is not well understood by many researchers in the various fields in which it is being applied because the original documentation is difficult to obtain. Therefore, the purpose of this article is to provide a comprehensive review of the BABT to offer researchers information about its history and limitations.
20世纪70年代初发生了多起针对公职人员的武装袭击事件，这促使轻型软质防弹衣项目开发现代、可隐蔽的软质防弹衣。需要开发方法来：（1）确定软质防弹衣阻止子弹穿透的有效性；（2）评估非穿透性钝器对身体撞击造成的潜在伤害。该项目进行了广泛研究，以开发评估软质防弹衣的方法，包括防弹衣后钝器伤（BABT）评估。这种方法至今仍在使用，并且其应用范围已远远超出了最初的意图。然而，由于原始文档难以获取，许多应用该方法的不同领域的研究人员并不十分了解其起源。因此，本文的目的是对防弹衣后钝器伤进行全面综述，为研究人员提供有关其历史和局限性的信息。
