AU2010291362A1

AU2010291362A1 - Anti-penetration textile sheet material and articles comprising the latter

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Publication number: AU2010291362A1
Application number: AU2010291362A
Authority: AU
Inventors: Christian Bottger; Rudiger Hartert
Original assignee: Teijin Aramid GmbH
Current assignee: Teijin Aramid GmbH
Priority date: 2009-09-04
Filing date: 2010-08-27
Publication date: 2012-03-29
Also published as: BR112012004859A2; IL218412A; EP2473659A1; ZA201201607B; CN102597346A; WO2011026783A1; EP2473659B1; IL218412A0; CL2012000575A1; CA2772633A1; RU2012112958A; RU2525809C2; JP5547812B2; US20120159699A1; MX2012002695A; JP2013503983A; CO6440509A2; CN102597346B

Abstract

The invention relates to anti-penetration textile sheet material and to articles comprising said sheet material. Said anti-penetration textile sheet materials are characterised in that they have improved fragment protection and improved stab protection action as well as bullet-proofing. Said advantageous characteristic combination of the anti-penetration textile sheet material, which corresponds to the article, also applies to articles comprising said anti-penetration textile sheet material.

Description

CQD 2819 Penetration-resistant textile fabrics and articles comprising said fabrics Description: The invention relates to penetration-resistant textile fabrics and articles comprising said fabrics Textile fabrics offering penetration-resistance, i.e. protection against attacks by projectile, stabbing, and explosive weapons, are known. The attack with projectile weapons can occur with bullet-shaped or fragmented ammunition, so that a penetration-resistant textile fabric should provide at least protection from bullets and fragments. During an attack using explosive weapons, the fragment protection action of the used penetration-resistant textile fabric is essential. Therefore, there has existed for a long time a need for penetration-resistant textile fabrics having ballistic and fragment protection, wherein an increased need for penetration resistant textile fabrics has recently come into being, which fabrics have an improved fragment protection action at the same ballistic protection. Therefore, it is the object of the present invention to provide a penetration-resistant textile fabric which has an improved fragment protection action at the same ballistic protection. The object is inventively achieved by a penetration-resistant textile fabric (1) comprising at least one untwisted high-performance filament yarn having a breaking tenacity of at least 1100 MPa, measured without twist according to ASTM D-885, which fabric is characterized in that the high-performance filament yarn is a volumized high-performance filament yarn to the extent that the textile fabric (1) which comprises the volumized high-performance filament yarn has a relative 2 compressibility measured according to DIN 53885 (October 1997), determined by measuring the initial thickness at a measuring pressure of 0.5 N/cm 2 and the end thickness at a measuring pressure of 5 N/cm 2 , wherein the relative compressibility is greater by a factor of f, which has a value in the range of 1.2 to 5, than the relative compressibility of a textile comparison fabric, the production of which differs from the production of the penetration-resistant textile fabric (1) only in that the high-performance filament yarn of the textile comparison fabric is not volumized. That the production of the above mentioned textile comparison fabric differs from the production of the inventive, penetration-resistant textile fabric (1) only in that the high-performance yarn of the textile comparison fabric is not volumized means in the context of the present invention that during the production of the textile comparison fabric, the same filament forming base material, thus e.g. the same filament forming polymer with the same molecular weightis sp un in the same spinning method into a high-performance filament yarn as during the production of the inventive penetration-resistant textile fabric (1). However, the high-performance filament yarn which is used to produce the penetration-resistant textile comparison fabric is not volumized and is processed in the same way as for the production of the inventive penetration-resistant textile fabric (1) into the textile comparison fabric. Surprisingly, the inventive penetration-resistant textile fabric (1) is characterized by an improved fragment protection action at the same ballistic protection. This is even more surprising, as the inventively essential volumization of the high performance filament yarn used in the inventive penetration-resistant textile fabric (1) is associated with a clear deterioration of the mechanical characteristics of the yarn in the form of a reduction in the breaking tenacity of the yarn, e.g. by 20%, and in the elongation at rupture of the yarn e.g. by 11%. In view of such drastically worsened yarn characteristics, a person skilled in the art would have to expect that 3 the ballistic and fragment protection of a textile fabric which comprises a yarn of this type would be likewise drastically reduced. A person skilled in the art would already be surprised if the ballistic and fragment protection of a textile fabric which comprises a yarn of this type was only slightly reduced. Therefore, it must indeed surprise a person skilled in the art when the ballistic and fragment protection of a textile fabric which contains a yarn of this type not only does not decrease, but instead remains as high in regard to ballistic protection, and even significantly increases in regard to fragment protection. Further, the inventive penetration-resistant textile fabric (1) is surprisingly characterized by an improved stab resistance efficiency which, in view of the previously described clear deterioration of the mechanical characteristics of the high-performance filament yarn due to the volumization thereof, is even more surprising. In a preferred embodiment, the penetration-resistant textile fabric (1) comprises a high-performance filament yarn with a strength of at least 2000 1700 MPa (120 cN/tex), particularly preferably at least 3000 2160 MPa (150 cN/tex), measured without twist according to ASTM D-885. In a further preferred embodiment of the penetration-resistant textile fabric (1), the high-performance filament yarn is selected from the group that consists of aramid filament yarns, polybenzoxazole filament yarns, polybenzothiazole filament yarns, and thermoplastic filament yarns, such as liquid crystalline polyester filament yarns, or a mixture of at least two of the above mentioned filament yarns. This means, in the context of the present invention, that for example the high performance filament yarn is selected either from the group that only comprises aramid filament yarns, or only polybenzoxazole filament yarns, or only polybenzothiazole filament yarns, or only thermoplastic filament yarns, such as liquid crystalline polyester filament yarns. Further, this means in the context of the present invention that for example the high-performance filament yarn can 4 comprise a mixture of aramid filament yarns with polybenzoxazole and/or polybenzothiazole and/or thermoplastic filament yarns such as liquid crystalline polyester filament yarns. Further, this means in the context of the present invention that for example the high-performance filament yarn can also comprise a mixture of polybenzoxazole and polybenzothiazole filament yarns. Within the context of the present invention, aramid filament yarns means filament yarns that are produced from aramids, i.e. from aromatic polyamides, wherein at least 85% of the amide linkages (-CO-NH-) are attached directly to two aromatic rings. An aromatic polyamide particularly preferred for the present invention is polyparaphenylene terephthalamide, a homopolymer resulting from the mole-for mole polymerization of paraphenylene diamine and terephthaloyl dichloride. Further, aromatic copolymers are suitable for the present invention in which paraphenylene diamine and/or terephthaloyl dichloride are partially or completely substituted by other aromatic diamines or dicarboxylic acid chlorides. Within the context of the present invention, polybenzoxazole filament yarns and polybenzothiazole filament yarns mean filament yarns that are produced from polybenzoxazoles or from polybenzothiazoles, i.e. from polymers having the structural units presented in the following, whereby the aromatic groups attached to the nitrogen are preferably carbocyclic, as shown in the structural units. However, said groups can also be heterocyclic. In addition, the aromatic groups attached to the nitrogen are preferably six-membered rings, as shown in the structural units. However, said groups can also be formed as fused or unfused polycyclic systems.

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NN N In a preferred embodiment, the inventive penetration-resistant textile fabric (1) has high-performance filament yarns with a single filament linear density in the range from 0.4 dtex to 3.0 dtex, particularly preferably in the range from 0.7 dtex to 1 .5 dtex, and in particular in the range from 0.8 dtex to 1 .2 dtex. In a further preferred embodiment, the inventive penetration-resistant textile fabric (1) has high-performance filament yarns with a yarn linear density in the range from 6 100 dtex to 6000 dtex, particularly preferably in the range from 210 dtex to 3360 dtex, and in particular in the range from 550 dtex to 1680 dtex. The inventive penetration-resistant textile fabric (1) is preferably a woven, a knitted fabric, or a unidirectional or multiaxial composite. Further, the inventive penetration-resistant textile fabric (1) can be a woven double layer. The structure of woven double layers of this type is described in WO 02/075238. If the inventive penetration-resistant textile fabric (1) is a woven, the woven is preferably a plain weave, twill weave, satin weave or derivations or combinations thereof. The inventive penetration-resistant textile fabric (1) can be produced from the volumized high-performance filament yarn e.g. using a rigid gripper weaving machine, a ribbon gripper weaving machine, a projectile weaving machine, an air jet weaving machine or a water-jet weaving machine. If the inventive penetration-resistant textile fabric (1) is a knitted fabric, then the knitted fabric is preferably configured such that the inventive threads run parallel to each other in at least one of the possible thread directions and are fixed by a loop forming binding thread system having at least one thread, with a preferably low weight and volume percent of the knitted fabric. If the inventive penetration-resistant textile fabric (I) is a multiaxial composite, the multiaxial composite consists preferably of two to six, particularly preferably of two layers of high-performance filament yarns of the previously described type lying parallel, wherein the high-performance filament yarns of one layer have an angle a in respect to the high-performance filament yarns of the adjacent layer and a preferably lies in the range from 00 to 90* and particularly preferably in the range from 200 to 70*, wherein a value of a = 450 is more particularly preferred. Further, the at least two layers of high-performance filament yarns of the previously 7 described type lying parallel are preferably connected to each other by a loop or seam forming binding thread system having at least one thread,with a preferably low weight and volume percent in relation to the multiaxial composite. The inventive penetration-resistant textile fabric (1) comprises a high-performance filament yarn of the previously described type that is characterized in that the high performance filament yarn is a volumized high-performance filament yarn. The volumization of the high-performance filament yarn can thereby in principle be carried out by any method that is in a position to increase the volume of the inventive high-performance filament yarn used to the extent that the inventive penetration-resistant textile fabric (1), which comprises the volumized high performance filament yarn, has a relative compressibility, measured in the previously described way according to DIN 53885 (October 1997), which is greater by a factor of f, which has a value in the range from 1.2 to 5, than the relative compressibility of a textile comparison fabric, the production of which differs from the production of the inventive penetration-resistant textile fabric (1) only in that the high-performance filament yarn of the textile comparison fabric is not volumized. A method for volumization is e.g. shrinkage. Accordingly, in a preferred embodiment of the inventive penetration-resistant textile fabric (1), the volumized, high-performance filament yarn comprises high-performance filaments preferably aramid filaments, polybenzoxazole filaments, polybenzothiazole filaments, liquid crystalline polyester filaments, or a mixture of at least two of the filaments just indicated -- and shrunken filaments, such as polyacrylonitrile filaments. To produce a yarn of this type, the high-performance filaments and the shrinkable filaments, such as stretched polyacrylonitrile filaments,a re mixed, processed into a mixed filament yarn, and the shrinkage is activated in the mixed filament yarn, by which means the high-performance filament yarns do not themselves shrink; however, an increase of the volume occurs due to the shrinkage of the shrinkable filaments so that the desired volumized high performance filament yarn results.

8 A preferred method for volumizing is texturizing the high-performance filament yarn used, e.g. by false-twist or knit-de-knit texturizing, wherein knit-de-knit texturizing is particularly preferred. Knit-de-knit texturizing means that the high performance filament yarn used is fed into a circular knitting machine, for example having a diameter from 1 to 50 inches, a fineness of preferably 5 to 20 gauge, and the resulting tube is steam treated twice for a time period in the range from 10 to 60 minutes at a temperature of >100 C, for example in an autoclave, and undone. The knit-de-knit texturized yarn thus treated has a wave-like structure afterwards, indeed even if the knit-de-knit texturized high-performance filament yarn is a knit de-knit texturized aramid filament yarn. The latter is surprising for a person skilled in the art because up until now it has been assumed that aramid filament yarns cannot be texturized. According to the invention, the penetration-resistant textile fabric (1) has a relative compressibility, measured in the previously described way according to DIN 53885 (October 1997), which is greater by a factor of f, which has a value in the range from 1.2 to 5, than the relative compressibility of a textile comparison fabric, the production of which differs from the production of the inventive penetration resistant textile fabric (1) only in that the high-performance filament yarn of the textile comparison fabric is not volumized. In the indicated value range of the factor f, the inventive penetration-resistant textile fabric (1) surprisingly has an improved fragment protection and additionally an improved stab resistance efficiency at the same ballistic protection. If f is smaller than 1.2, the above mentioned combination of characteristics is not observed. If f is greater than 5, structures are present whose low degree of orientation in the longitudinal direction of the fibers leads to a clear reduction of the energy dissipation required for ballistic protection. The just mentioned surprising combination of characteristics of improved fragment protection at the same ballistic protection and additionally an improved stab 9 resistance efficiency is especially clearly distinct if the factor f lies in the range from 1.4 to 4, and particularly preferably in the range from 1.6 to 3.0. Therefore, in a preferred embodiment of the inventive penetration-resistant textile fabric (1), the factor f has a value in the range from 1.4 to 4, and in a particularly preferred embodiment, a value in the range from 1.6 to 3.0. The previously described surprising combination of characteristics of improved fragment protection at the same ballistic protection and additionally an improved stab resistance efficiency, which is inherent in the inventive penetration-resistant textile fabric (1), is correspondingly transferred to articles which comprise the inventive penetration-resistant textile fabric (1). Therefore, an article (Al) comprising at least one inventive penetration-resistant textile fabric (1) is likewise part of the present invention, wherein a person skilled in the art who understands the invention can easily determine the number of inventive penetration-resistant textile fabrics (1) necessary for a certain embodiment of the article (Al). In a preferred embodiment, the inventive article (AI) is i) a helmet, vehicle armor, a ceramic composite plate, or another protective structure which is strengthened by means of resin matrices, or ii) a fragment protection mat, a bullet-proof vest, a flak jacket, a stab-resistant vest, or a combination of at least two of the indicated articles, such as a combined bullet-proof vest and flak jacket. In a further preferred embodiment, the inventive article (Al) is a combined bullet-, fragment-, and stab-resistant vest. The underlying object of the present invention as indicated at the beginning is further achieved by a penetration-resistant textile fabric (11) comprising at least one untwisted high-performance filament yarn with a strength of at least 1100 MPa measured without twist according to ASTM D-885, characterized in that the textile fabric (11) is a volumized textile fabric to the extent that the volumized textile fabric 10 has a relative compressibility measured according to DIN 53885 (October 1997), determined by measuring the initial thickness at a measuring pressure of 0.5 N/cm 2 and the end thickness at a measuring pressure of 5 N/cm 2 , wherein the relative compressibility is greater by a factor of f, which has a value in the range of 1.2 to 5, than the relative compressibility of a textile comparison fabric which differs from the volumized textile fabric only in that it is not volumized. That the above-mentioned textile comparison fabric differs from the inventive penetration-resistant textile fabric (11) only in that it, the textile comparison fabric, is not volumized, means in the context of the present invention that, during the production of the textile comparison fabric, the same filament forming base material, thus e.g. the same filament forming polymer with the same molecular weightis sp un in the same spinning method into a high-performance filament yarn and is subsequently processed into the textile comparison fabric in the same way as the inventive penetration-resistant textile fabric (11) is processed, wherein however the textile comparison fabric is not volumized. Surprisingly, the inventive penetration-resistant textile fabric (11) is also characterized by an improved fragment protection at the same ballistic protection and additionally by an improved stab resistance efficiency. This is even more surprising since the inventive, essential volumization of the inventive penetration-resistant textile fabric (11) is associated with a clear deterioration of the mechanical characteristics of the inventive penetration resistant textile fabric (11) such as the breaking tenacity thereof. In view of this deterioration, a person skilled in the art would have to expect that the ballistic and fragment protection as well as the stab protection of the inventive textile fabric with such a deterioration in its mechanical characteristics would be likewise drastically reduced. Consequently, it must surprise a person skilled in the art when the ballistic and fragment protection of the inventive textile fabric (II) with a deterioration in its mechanical characteristics not only does not decrease, but 11 instead remains as high in regard to ballistic protection, and even significantly increases in regard to fragment protection, and that the inventive penetration resistant textile fabric (11) additionally shows an improved stab resistance efficiency. In a preferred embodiment, the penetration-resistant textile fabric (11) comprises a high-performance filament yarn with a strength of at least 1700 MPa (120 cN/tex), particularly preferably at least 2160 MPa (150 cN/tex) measured without twist according to ASTM D-885. In a further preferred embodiment of the inventive penetration-resistant textile fabric (1l), the high-performance filament yarn is selected from the group that consists of aramid filament yarns, polybenzoxazole filament yarns, polybenzothiazole filament yarns, and thermoplastic filament yarns, such as liquid crystalline polyester filament yarns, or a mixture of at least two of the above mentioned filament yarns. This means in the context of the present invention analogously the same as was already stated during the description of the inventive penetration-resistant textile fabric (I). In a preferred embodiment, the inventive penetration-resistant textile fabric (II) has high-performance filament yarns with a single filament linear density in the range from 0.4 dtex to 3.0 dtex, particularly preferably in the range from 0.7 dtex to 1.5 dtex, and in particular in the range from 0.8 dtex to 1.2 dtex. In a further preferred embodiment, the inventive penetration-resistant textile fabric (II) has high-performance filament yarns with a yarn linear density from 100 dtex to 6000 dtex, particularly preferably in the range from 210 dtex to 3360 dtex, and in particular in the range from 550 dtex to 1680 dtex. The inventive volumized, penetration-resistant textile fabric (11) is preferably a woven, a knitted fabric, or a unidirectional or multiaxial composite.

12 Further, the inventive penetration-resistant textile fabric (II) can be a woven double layer. The structure of woven double layers of this type is described in WO 02/075238. If the inventive volumized penetration-resistant textile fabric (11) is a woven, the woven is preferably a plain weave, twill weave, satin weave or derivations or combinations thereof. If the inventive volumized penetration-resistant textile fabric (II) is a knitted fabric, then the knitted fabric is preferably configured such that the inventive threads run parallel to each other in at least one of the possible thread directions and are fixed by a loop forming binding thread system having at least one thread,with a preferably low weight and volume percent of the knitted fabric. If the inventive volumized penetration-resistant textile fabric (1l) is a multiaxial composite, the multiaxial composite consists preferably of two to six, particularly preferably of two layers of high-performance filament yarns of the previously described type lying parallel, wherein the high-performance filament yarns of one layer have an angle a in respect to the high-performance filament yarns of the adjacent layer and a preferably lies in the range from 0* to 90* and particularly preferably in the range from 200 to 70*, wherein a value of a = 45* is more particularly preferred. In addition, the at least two layers of high-performance filament yarns of the previously described type lying parallel are preferably connected to each other by a loop or seam forming binding thread system having at least one threadwith a preferably low weight and volume percent in relation to the multiaxial composite. The inventive penetration-resistant textile fabric (11) is characterized in that it is a volumized penetration-resistant textile fabric. The volumization of the textile fabric can be thereby implemented in principle by any method that is in the position to 13 increase the volume of the inventive penetration-resistant textile fabric used to the extent that the inventive penetration-resistant textile fabric has a relative compressibility, measured in the previously described way according to DIN 53885 (October 1997), which is greater by a factor of f, which has a value in the range from 1.2 to 5, than the relative compressibility of a textile fabric which differs from the volumized textile fabric only in that it is not volumized. A suitable method for volumization is e.g. shrinkage. For this purpose, a penetration-resistant textile fabric is used that contains in addition to the previously described high-performance filament yarn a shrinkable yarn, e.g. a stretched polyacrylonitrile yarn, which effects by its shrinkage the volumization of the penetration-resistant textile fabric used when the shrinkage is activated, by which means the inventive volumized penetration-resistant textile fabric (11) is generated. Consequently, in a preferred embodiment of the invention, the volumized textile fabric (11) is a fabric that contains in addition to the high-performance filament yarn a shrunken yarn, e.g. a shrunken polyacrylonitrile yarn. According to the invention, the penetration-resistant textile fabric (11) has a relative compressibility, measured in the previously described way according to DIN 53885 (October 1997), which is greater by a factor of f, which has a value in the range from 1.2 to 5, than the relative compressibility of a textile comparison fabric which differs from the volumized textile fabric only in that it is not volumized. In the indicated value range of the factor f, the inventive penetration-resistant textile fabric (11) has an improved fragment protection and additionally an improved stab resistance efficiency at the same ballistic protection. If f is smaller than 1.2, the above mentioned combination of characteristics is not observed. If f is greater than 5, structures are present whose low degree of orientation in the longitudinal direction of the fibers leads to a clear reduction of the energy dissipation required for ballistic protection.

14 The just mentioned surprising combination of characteristics of improved fragment protection at the same ballistic protection and improved stab resistance efficiency is especially clearly distinct if the factor f lies in the range from 1.4 to 4, and particularly preferably in the range from 1.6 to 3.0. Therefore, in a preferred embodiment of the inventive penetration-resistant textile fabric (11), the factor f has a value in the range from 1.4 to 4, and in a particularly preferred embodiment, a value in the range from 1.6 to 3.0. The previously described surprising combination of characteristics of improved fragment protection at the same ballistic protection and an improved stab resistance efficiency, which is inherent in the inventive penetration-resistant textile fabric (II), is correspondingly transferred to articles which comprise the inventive penetration-resistant textile fabric (11). Therefore, an article (All) comprising at least one inventive penetration-resistant textile fabric (11) is likewise part of the present invention, wherein a person skilled in the art who understands the invention can easily determine the number of inventive penetration-resistant textile fabrics (II) necessary for a certain embodiment of the article (All). In a preferred embodiment, the inventive article (All) is i) a helmet, vehicle armor, a ceramic composite plate, or another protective structure which is respectively strengthened by means of resin matrices, or ii) a fragment protection mat, a bullet-proof vest, a flak jacket, a stab-resistant vest, or a combination of at least two of the indicated articles, such as a combined bullet-proof vest and flak jacket. In a further preferred embodiment, the inventive article (All) is a combined bullet-, fragment-, and stab-resistant vest. The invention will now be described in more detail in the following examples. The following measuring methods will be used therein: 15 The breaking tenacity and the elongation at rupture are measured according to ASTM D-885, however without twist. The relative compressibility of the woven is measured according to DIN 53885 (October 1997) with the difference that the initial thickness is measured at a measuring pressure of 0.5 N/cm 2 and the end thickness at a measuring pressure of 5.0 N/cm2. Example 1 A polyparaphenylene terephthalamide filament yarn (Twaron* type 2040, 930 dtex, f1000 tO (tO means twist = 0, thus an untwisted yarn) available from Teijin Aramid GmbH) with a breaking tenacity of 200 cN/tex, i.e. 2880 MPa, and an elongation at rupture of 3.0% is knit-de-knit texturized as described in the following: The polyparaphenylene terephthalamide filament yarn is fed into a circular knitting machine with a diameter of 3.5 inches and with a fineness of 13 gauge and the resulting tube is steam treated twice for 30 minutes at 1200C and undone. The knit-de-knit texturized yarn thus treated has a wave-like structure. As a result of the knit-de-knit texturizing, the breaking tenacity of the polyparaphenylene terephthalamide filament yarn deteriorates to a value of 160 cN/tex (2240 MPa), i.e. by 20%, and the elongation at rupture to 2.66%, i.e. by 11%. The knit-de-knit polyparaphenylene terephthalamide filament yarn is processed at a thread count of 8.5 per cm in warp and weft on a rigid gripper weaving machine to a plain weave with a mass per unit area of 165 g/m 2 . The woven comprising the polyparaphenylene terephthalamide filament yarn has a relative compressibility of 28.3%.

16 16 layers of the woven comprising the knit-de-knit texturized polyparaphenylene terephthalamide filament yarn are stacked in the unprocessed state, i.e. without removing the finish through e.g. a washing process and without applying a water repellent finish, into a package. The package is humidity conditioned at a temperature of 200C for 20 h at a relative humidity of 65% and has a mass per unit area of 2.6 kg/M 2 . The humidity conditioned package is bombarded with fragment simulating projectiles according to STANAG 2920 (1.1 g fragments) and the v 5 o(fragment) value, i.e. the shot velocity at which 50% of all shots are sustained, is determined. The value of v 50 (fragment) is 483 m/s (see Table 1). Comparison example I A polyparaphenylene terephthalamide filament yarn (Twaron* type 2040, 930 dtex, f 1000 to (tO means twist = 0, thus an untwisted yarn) available from Teijin Aramid GmbH) with a breaking tenacity of 200 cN/tex, i.e. 2880 MPa, and an elongation at rupture of 3% is processed into a woven as in Example 1 but in the non-texturized state. This means that the yarn is not knit-de-knit texturized prior to being processed into the woven and is otherwise not subjected to any volumization treatment. The woven comprising the non-texturized polyparaphenylene terephthalamide filament yarn has a relative compressibility of 12.5%. 16 layers of the woven consisting of the non-texturized polyparaphenylene terephthalamide filament yarn are stacked in the unprocessed state into a package and humidity-conditioned as in Example 1. The package has a mass per unit area of 2.6 kg/M 2 . As in Example 1, v 50 (fragment) is determined for the humidity conditioned package. The value of v 5 o(fragment) is 453 m/s (see Table 1).

17 Example 2 A polyparaphenylene terephthalamide filament yarn (Twaron* type 2040, 930 dtex, f1000 tO (tO means twist = 0, thus an untwisted yarn) available from Teijin Aramid GmbH) with a breaking tenacity of 200 cN/tex, i.e. 2880 MPa, and an elongation at rupture of 3% is knit-de-knit texturized as in Example 1. As a result of the knit-de-knit texturizing, the breaking tenacity of the polyparaphenylene terephthalamide filament yarn deteriorates to a value of 160 cN/tex (2240 MPa), i.e. by 20%, and the elongation at rupture to 2.66%, i.e. by 11%. The knit-de-knit polyparaphenylene terephthalamide filament yarn is processed as in Example 1 into a woven. The woven consisting of the knit-de-knit polyparaphenylene terephthalamide filament yarn has a relative compressibility of 28.3%. 26 layers of the woven comprising the knit-de-knit texturized polyparaphenylene terephthalamide filament yarn are stacked in the unprocessed state, i.e. without removing the finish through e.g. a washing process and without applying a water repellent finish, into a package. The package is humidity conditioned at a temperature of 200C for 20 h at a relative humidity of 65% and has a mass per unit area of 4.25 kg/M 2 . The humidity-conditioned package is bombarded with 9 mm DM 41 ammunition and the v5 0 (projectile) value is determined. The v 5 o(projectile) value is 473 ± 10 m/s (see Table 1).

18 Comparison example 2 A polyparaphenylene terephthalamide filament yarn* (Twaron* type 2040, 930 dtex, f1 000 to (tO means twist = 0, thus an untwisted yarn) available from Teijin Aramid GmbH) with a breaking tenacity of 200 cN/tex, i.e. 2880 MPa, and an elongation at rupture of 3% is processed into a woven as in Example 2 but in the non-texturized state. This means that the yarn is not knit-de-knit texturized prior to being processed into the woven and is otherwise not subjected to any volumization treatment. The woven consisting of the non-texturized polyparaphenylene terephthalamide filament yarn has a relative compressibility of 12.5%. 26 layers of the woven comprising the non-texturized polyparaphenylene terephthalamide filament yarn are stacked into a package and humidity conditioned as in Example 2. As in Example 2, the v 50 (projectile) value is determined for the humidity-conditioned package. The v 5 o(projectile) value is 478 6 m/s (see Table 1).

19 Table 1: Yarn Relative v 50 (fragment) compressibility [m/s] of the woven Example 1 knit-de-knit 28.3% 483 texturized f =2.26 Comparison non-texturized 12.5% 453 example 1 Yarn Relative v 50 (projectile) compressibility [m/s] of the woven Example 2 knit-de-knit 28.3% 473 10 texturized f = 2.26 Comparison non-texturized 12.5% 478 6 example 2 1 1 1 1 Table 1 shows that the inventive woven made of the knit-de-knit texturized yarn has, at the same good ballistic protection (compare Example 2 with Comparison example 2), a fragment protection that is 6.6% higher in comparison to the woven made from non-texturized yarn (compare Example 1 with Comparison example 1). Example 3 25 layers of a woven made of the knit-de-knit texturized polyparaphenylene terephthalamide filament yarn and produced as in Example 1 are stacked in the unprocessed state into a package. The package is humidity conditioned as in Example 1 and has a mass per unit area of 4.1 kg/m 2 . According to the "Home Office Scientific Development Branch (HOSDB) Body Armour Standards for UK Police (2007), Part 3: Knife and Spike Resistance", the package is subjected to a stab protection test with a P1/B knife, said knife being described in the above mentioned standard on page 6, section 5.3, figure 2, and on page 21. For this 20 purpose, the package to be tested is laid on an elastic foam of 66 mm thickness. The foam simulates the human body. The foam lies on a metal plate. The package to be tested, lying on the foam, is stabbed with the previously designated P1/B knife, which has a specific kinetic energy. The penetration depth of the knife into the foam is then measured. The penetration depth in the foam simulates the depth with which the knife would penetrate the body of the attacked person during a knife attack at a specific energy of the knife. Afterwards, the kinetic energy of the knife is increased and the penetration depth of the knife into the foam that occurs at the increased kinetic energy is determined. The results are shown in Table 2. Comparison example 3 25 layers of a woven made of the non-texturized polyparaphenylene terephthalamide filament yarn, produced as in Comparison example 1, are stacked in the unprocessed state into a package. The package is humidity conditioned as in Example 1 and has a mass per unit area of 4.1 kg/M 2 . According to the "Home Office Scientific Development Branch (HOSDB) Body Armour Standards for UK Police (2007), Part 3: Knife and Spike Resistance", the package is subjected to a stab protection test with a P1/B knife as in Example 3. The results are shown in Table 2.

21 Table 2: Kinetic energy of the Package from Package from P1/B knife Example 3 Comparison example 3 [Joules] 10.2 Penetration depth = Penetration depth = 7mm 32mm 36.0 Penetration depth = Complete penetration 16 mm Table 2 shows that, during the stabbing of the package from Example 3, made from the inventive woven layers made of knit-de-knit texturized filament yarn, at a kinetic energy of the knife of 10.2 joules, the penetration depth of the knife into the foam is only 7 mm, while at the same kinetic energy of the knife, the stabbing of the package from Comparison example 3, made from woven layers made of non texturized filament yarn, leads to a penetration depth of 32 mm into the foam. Table 2 further shows that, during the stabbing of the package from Example 3, made from the inventive woven layers made of knit-de-knit texturized filament yarn, at a kinetic energy of the knife of 36 joules, the penetration depth of the knife into the foam is only 16 mm, while at the same kinetic energy of the knife, the stabbing of the package from Comparison example 3, made from woven layers made of non-texturized filament yarn, leads to complete penetration of the foam, such that the knife hits the metal plate on which the foam lies.

Claims

1. Penetration-resistant textile fabric (1) comprising at least one untwisted high-performance filament yarn having a breaking tenacity of at least 1100 MPa, measured without twist according to ASTM D-885, characterized in that the high-performance filament yarn is a volumized high-performance filament yarn to the extent that the textile fabric (1) which comprises the volumized high-performance filament yarn has a relative compressibility, measured according to DIN 53885, determined by measuring the initial thickness at a measuring pressure of 0.5 N/cm 2 and the end thickness at a measuring pressure of 5 N/cm 2 , wherein the relative compressibility is greater by a factor of f, which has a value in the range of 1.2 to 5, than the relative compressibility of a textile comparison fabric, the production of which differs from the production of the penetration-resistant textile fabric (1) only in that the high-performance filament yarn of the textile comparison fabric is not volumized.

2. Penetration-resistant textile fabric (1) according to Claim 1, characterized in that the high-performance filament yarn is selected from the group that consists of aramid filament yarns, polybenzoxazole filament yarns, polybenzothiazole filament yarns, liquid crystalline polyester filament yarns, or a mixture of at least two of the above mentioned filament yarns.

3. Penetration-resistant textile fabric (1) according to Claim 1 or 2, characterized in that the textile fabric is a woven, a knitted fabric, or a 23 unidirectional or multiaxial composite.

4. Penetration-resistant textile fabric (1) according to one or more of Claims 1 to 3, characterized in that the volumized high-performance filament yarn comprises high-performance filaments and shrunken filaments.

5. Penetration-resistant textile fabric (1) according to one or more of Claims 1 to 3, characterized in that the volumized high-performance filament yarn is a texturized high-performance filament yarn.

6. Penetration-resistant textile fabric (1) according to Claim 5, characterized in that the texturized high-performance filament yarn is a knit-de-knit texturized high-performance filament yarn.

7. Penetration-resistant textile fabric (1) according to one or more of Claims 1 to 6, characterized in that the factor f has a value in the range from 1.4 to 4.

8. Article (Al) comprising at least one penetration-resistant textile fabric (1) according to one or more of Claims 1 to 7.

9. Article (AI) according to Claim 8, characterized in that the article is i) a helmet, vehicle armor, or a ceramic composite plate, or ii) a fragment protection mat, a bullet-proof vest, a flak jacket, a stab resistant vest, or a combination of at least two of the indicated articles.

10. Penetration-resistant textile fabric (11) comprising at least one untwisted high-performance filament yarn having a breaking tenacity of at least 1100 MPa, measured without twist according to ASTM D-885, characterized in that the textile fabric (11) is a volumized textile fabric to the extent that the volumized textile fabric has a relative compressibility measured according to DIN 53885,d etermined by measuring the initial 24 thickness at a measuring pressure of 0.5 N/cm 2 and the end thickness at a measuring pressure of 5 N/cm 2 , wherein the relative compressibility is greater by a factor of f, which has a value in the range of 1.2 to 5, than the relative compressibility of a textile comparison fabric which differs from the volumized textile fabric only in that it is not volumized.

11. Penetration-resistant textile fabric (II) according to Claim 10, characterized in that the high-performance filament yarn is selected from the group that consists of aramid filament yarns, polybenzoxazole filament yarns, polybenzothiazole filament yarns, liquid crystalline polyester filament yarns, or a mixture of at least two of the above mentioned filament yarns.

12. Penetration-resistant textile fabric (II) according to Claim 10 or 11, characterized in that the volumized textile fabric is a woven, a knitted fabric, or a unidirectional or multiaxial composite.

13. Penetration-resistant textile fabric (11) according to one or more of Claims 10 to 12, characterized in that the volumized textile fabric contains in addition to the high-performance filament yarn a shrunken yarn.

14. Penetration-resistant textile fabric (11) according to one or more of Claims 10 to 13, characterized in that the factor f has a value in the range from 1.4 to 4.

15.Article (All) comprising at least one penetration-resistant textile fabric (II) according to one or more of Claims 10 to 14.

16.Article (All) according to Claim 15, characterized in that the article is i) a helmet, vehicle armor, or a ceramic composite plate, or ii) a fragment protection mat, a bullet-proof vest, a flak jacket, a stab resistant vest, or a combination of at least two of the indicated articles.