Contrary to popular belief, studded leather armor was never something used in ancient and medieval warfare. It was actually rivets holding down smaller plates underneath leather, the purpose of which was probably for more flexibility and mobility, or perhaps it was just cheaper. Point is, studded armor has no extra benefits compared to standard leather armor. So I recommend for full realism in your mod, to replace studded armor with "riveted plate" or "coat of plates" or something like that, I don't know, I'm not a modder. I also don't mean to be a nit picking jerkoff, but if you're gonna try and go for realism you might as well know. If you do make the change (or not, considering this is a combat mod and re-naming items might not exactly fall under its category), thank you very much. I try to mod Skyrim with as much immersion and realism as I possibly can, without ruining the fun of it, but this is such a glaring detail that I couldn't help but comment on it, and it would only be altering the name of the item in-game itself, nothing about models or what not (something I have no idea how to do).
Sources:
https://www.wpi.edu/Pubs/E-project/Available/E-project-042008-164934/unrestricted/aa_final_document.pdf (go down to plate armor, page 63)
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Sources:
https://www.wpi.edu/Pubs/E-project/Available/E-project-042008-164934/unrestricted/aa_final_document.pdf
(go down to plate armor, page 63)
http://virtuabis.free.fr/Armour%20from%20the%20Battle%20of%20Wisby%201361%20t%20II.pdf
https://www.arador.com/armour/coat-of-plates/