Making Bulletproof Wood [video]
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Making Bulletproof Wood [video]
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#2Another curious material if ballistic protection is your fancy, is fiber reinforced closed cell foamed concrete at a proper density and thickness.
While not suitable as personal armor due to thickness (generally around 1.5ft/45cm), it’s something can provide rapid and cheap local access to protection from shrapnel and rifle bullets, which unfortunately is still a genuine concern around the world.
At lower density foamed concrete also makes for good insulation that doesn’t have the toxic offgas and flammability problems of petrochemical foams.
Re: Making Bulletproof Wood [video]
#3Another curious material if ballistic protection is your fancy, is fiber reinforced closed cell foamed concrete at a proper density and thickness. While not suitable as personal armor due to thickness (generally around 1.5ft/45cm), it’s something can provide rapid and cheap local access to protection from shrapnel and rifle bullets, which unfortunately is still a genuine concern around the world. At lower density foa…
my back of the napkin math only puts this around the same stopping power as plywood of similar thickness. Sand bags work a lot better and are a hell of a lot easier and cheaper to produce
Re: Making Bulletproof Wood [video]
#4Another curious material if ballistic protection is your fancy, is fiber reinforced closed cell foamed concrete at a proper density and thickness. While not suitable as personal armor due to thickness (generally around 1.5ft/45cm), it’s something can provide rapid and cheap local access to protection from shrapnel and rifle bullets, which unfortunately is still a genuine concern around the world. At lower density foa…
my back of the napkin math only puts this around the same stopping power as plywood of similar thickness. Sand bags work a lot better and are a hell of a lot easier and cheaper to produce
A 45cm thickness of plywood would be an enormous amount of plywood, unless you're only covering a very small area.
Re: Making Bulletproof Wood [video]
#5Another curious material if ballistic protection is your fancy, is fiber reinforced closed cell foamed concrete at a proper density and thickness. While not suitable as personal armor due to thickness (generally around 1.5ft/45cm), it’s something can provide rapid and cheap local access to protection from shrapnel and rifle bullets, which unfortunately is still a genuine concern around the world. At lower density foa…
my back of the napkin math only puts this around the same stopping power as plywood of similar thickness. Sand bags work a lot better and are a hell of a lot easier and cheaper to produce
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Re: Making Bulletproof Wood [video]
#6Another curious material if ballistic protection is your fancy, is fiber reinforced closed cell foamed concrete at a proper density and thickness. While not suitable as personal armor due to thickness (generally around 1.5ft/45cm), it’s something can provide rapid and cheap local access to protection from shrapnel and rifle bullets, which unfortunately is still a genuine concern around the world. At lower density foa…
At 45cm thick, I would hope it will be protecting me against shells, not just rifle bullets...
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#7There are two potential issues that I wish he either explored or explained in more detail:
1. When he cut the post-treated wood and the middle looked very much like untreated wood. He kind of glossed over that and explained that he thought the chemicals were penetrating all the wood, but that shot looked really suspicious. I’d be surprised if the chemicals were really effective for that thick of a piece with only one soaking (which left a very dirty by-product by the way, suggesting the solution’s effectiveness may have deteriorated before it had time to work on the innermost part of the wood).
2. There didn’t seem to be any bullet-stopping until he decided to glue more than one piece together with a fairly strong glue. And oddly enough, the bullet seemed to stop near the boundary between pieces that had been glued. I’m sure the wood was strong, but how do we know the glue itself wasn’t a substantial barrier stopping the bullet? I can imagine many very thin slices of untreated wood with enough glue interfaces binding them together (depending on the glue) also potentially stopping a bullet.
In either case, it was a cool experiment and looked like it took a lot of time to pull off.
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#8Another curious material if ballistic protection is your fancy, is fiber reinforced closed cell foamed concrete at a proper density and thickness. While not suitable as personal armor due to thickness (generally around 1.5ft/45cm), it’s something can provide rapid and cheap local access to protection from shrapnel and rifle bullets, which unfortunately is still a genuine concern around the world. At lower density foa…
my back of the napkin math only puts this around the same stopping power as plywood of similar thickness. Sand bags work a lot better and are a hell of a lot easier and cheaper to produce
From my experience shooting plywood, the 9mm would have no problem going through the same thickness. He is legitimately on to something with his process.
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#9There are two potential issues that I wish he either explored or explained in more detail: 1. When he cut the post-treated wood and the middle looked very much like untreated wood. He kind of glossed over that and explained that he thought the chemicals were penetrating all the wood, but that shot looked really suspicious. I’d be surprised if the chemicals were really effective for that thick of a piece with only one…
It actually did really well with just his one original panel. The back would have been completely blown out if it exited fully expanded at a high velocity.
I agree with your treatment observation and believe that shows room for improvement.
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#10Great video but I was more interested in the aspect of using this high-density wood structurally instead of steel for example. It would be nick to see some examples to that