Weapon/Armor Effectiveness

[Cerco 21]

If I am in Europe next year for grad school maybe we could talk about getting an interdisciplinary project together. An engineer, a classicist who can fence and program and do calculus, and a third person who is very good at cutting would make a good team.

If you do come to Europe, we'll be more than pleased to help you. My group has 3 Engineers and one Teacher, we all do historical fencing for over 10 years now. Our problem is test facilities. We all have jobs outside the academic medium that bred us so we don't have a "department" were we can go and borrow dynamometres, do hardness tests etc. We have some test equipment, but we would like to have a compreensive data logger to test a series of parameters. If you come for an Engineering grad look for IST or FEUP.

Also we are very unbiased, one of us is an archery fanatic, the other (myself) enjoys chainmail and axes and a third is a full plate buff. Very interesting discussions, and no definite conclusions...