Bullet Penetration: Modeling the Dynamics & the Incapacitation Resulting from Wound Trauma

Bullet Penetration describes the analysis and testing of a model of bulletpenetration dynamics; this model is a significant technical advance over what has beenheretofore available. This penetration model is directly related to understanding theproduction of an incapacitating wound by the bullet parameters (velocity, weight, shape,diameter). Incapacitation from wound trauma is a complex subject that has beencontroversial for many decades, and all aspects of this subject are discussed in detail inBullet Penetration. The new results in this book are described in a style and vocabularythat make the basic principles and results understandable to the layman. This outstandingbook should be read by everyone who is critically dependent on handgun bulletperformance as well as all those with an interest in any aspect of wound ballistics.The topics covered in Bullet Penetration include physiological and psychologicaleffects in incapacitation from wound trauma, modeling of bullet penetration, and modelingof bullet expansion. The realities associated with the desired "one shot stop" and theignorance and/or fraud in "combat data" claims are discussed in detail. The primary focusis on handgun ammunition, but the principles and many of the results are also applicableto rifle ammunition. The book has 307 pages, including 69 pages of bullet photographsand graphs of test results.