Ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE) has emerged as the core material for individual soldier protection equipment due to its outstanding impact resistance
and its lightweight and high-strength characteristics. However
the existing evaluation methods are enable to accurately quantify the complex damage characteristics of UHMWPE. A Markov random field K-means++model with physical damage characteristic constraints is proposed for the special damage patterns of UHMWPE materials under a 0°/90° ply structure. This model forms a multi-constrained optimization framework by integrating the efficient clustering of K-means++
the spatial constraints of MRF
and the modeling of material damage characteristics. The cross and radial star structure features of UHMWPE are effectively captured by introducing the anisotropic penalty factor and the distance metric with superimposed physical structures. Experimental results indicate that the proposed model demonstrates significant advantages in all damage morphologies compared with traditional segmentation methods and deep learning models. Particularly in the identification of the tensile regions and undamaged areas of various damage morphologies
the error reduction rate exceeds 90% . This study provides a quantitative tool and reliable technical support for the evaluation of the protective performance and structural optimization of UHMWPE soft protective materials.
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