How does a soft body armor works?

Many marvel the wonder of soft body armor. most of us would question even the authenticity of body armors and how  such a soft piece of clothing be able to stop bullets and help save lives? The potential of soft body armor is so powerful that according to a US survey that says, lives would be safer when you wear body armor at all times on duty than not wearing any body armor at all. Let us take a look at how this powerful body armor works.

Soft body armor is such a mystery. But the answer is very simple. At its heart, a piece of bullet proof material is just a very very strong net or a web of fibers. Compare it to something like a spider silk or a soccer net.

Long strands of fibers make up a very powerful bullet proof vest or body armor. They are interlaced to form a dense net that can protect the wearer even from a travelling bullet. This travelling bullet is so fast that the nets should be made from a very strong material able to stop the bullets at whatever velocity it travels.

When the hand gun bullet strikes a body armor, it is caught in a web of very strong fibers which these fibers absorb and disperse the impact energy that is transmitted to the vest from the bullet. This absorption of the vest of the energy causes the bullet to deform or mushroom. In each layer of the material of the body armor, the bullet’s energy absorbed until the bullet has been stopped.

As of the current writing, today’s modern generation of soft body armor can now provide protection in a variety of levels and are even designed to protect the wearer against stab and knives. See the NIJ’s classification of this body armor.