LONDON & SE SECTION PROGRAMME SPRING 2008

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Wednesday 21st May 2008

Guest speaker

Paul Fenne
BSc, CEng, Head of Physical Protection Group
Operational Technical Support Unit, Metropolitan Police Service.

Bullets v Textiles … Who wins?

Weapons using projectiles have been used for centuries, ranging from stones to arrows to bullets. Textiles have been optimized to provide protection from all these sorts of projectiles at various times in history in the development of personal armour schemes. Today, designing protection from the high velocity bullet is a significant problem. The talk will trace the history of this development and the success of modern personal armour schemes using textiles.

Paul worked in the UK MoD, at MVEE (Military Vehicles and Engineering Establishment) developing many different aspects of combat vehicle design from armour, weapon systems, battlefield survivability and ergonomics. In 1987 Paul joined the Met Police to run a team to develop the engineering aspects of design and procurement of physical protection solutions. This ranges from vehicle protection to body armor.

The Lecture Theatre, Room 022
London College of Fashion, Davis Street, London W1
Nearest tube - Bond Street

6.30pm for 7pm
Members (including SDC) and students free, Non-members £5

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London and the South East Section AGM

11th June 2008
6.30pm for 7pm

Speaker - to be announced

Venue - to be announced