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Comparing the penetrative stab performance of the UK HOSDB P1/B and Stanley Tools 1992 trimming blades on certified body armour specimens
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posted on 2015-12-21, 15:54 authored by Andrew JohnsonAndrew Johnson, Guy Bingham, Candice E. MajewskiThis body of research assessed the penetrative stab performance of the United Kingdom Home Office Scientific Development Branch’s (HOSDB) P1/B certified blades against the readily accessible Stanley Tools 1992 trimming blade. All tests were performed against the HOSDB KR1-E1 impact energy of 24 Joules on HOSDB KR1 certified body armour specimens. Results demonstrated that the Stanley 1992 trimming blade posed a 30% greater stab threat in comparison to the HOSDB P1/B blade. This paper demonstrates the threat imposed by readily available utility blades and a requirement to enhance existing body stab resistant body armour test procedures testing procedures.
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The Police Journal: Theory, Practice and PrinciplesCitation
JOHNSON, A., BINGHAM, G.A. and MAJEWSKI, C.E., 2016. Comparing the penetrative stab performance of the UK HOSDB P1/B and Stanley Tools 1992 trimming blades on certified body armour specimens. The Police Journal: Theory, Practice and Principles, 90 (1), pp. 24-39.Publisher
SAGE PublicationsVersion
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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Publication date
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This paper was accepted for publication in the journal The Police Journal: Theory, Practice and Principles and the definitive published version is available at https://doi.org/10.1177/0032258X16671029ISSN
0032-258XPublisher version
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