COLLEGE STATION, Texas (KBTX) - Andrea Porter is stripping back the layers of bulletproof material as she researches ways to make body armor safer and more comfortable for women’s bodies. The Texas ...
This chapter discusses the foundational basis for the current body armor testing methodologies as practiced by military and law enforcement agencies. In the 1970s developments in fiber technology and ...
What do bra fitting and body armor testing have in common? Andrea Porter's dissertation. When Porter took a sabbatical from her career to earn her Ph.D. in multidisciplinary engineering, she never ...