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Civil-Comp Proceedings
ISSN 1759-3433
CCP: 67
COMPUTATIONAL TECHNIQUES FOR MATERIALS, COMPOSITES AND COMPOSITE STRUCTURES
Edited by: B.H.V. Topping
Paper I.8

Modeling of 2D and 3D Textile-Reinforced Composites by Means of Imbricate-Type Elements Approaches

D. Bigaud and P. Hamelin

Laboratoire Mécanique Matériaux, Université Claude Bernard Lyon I, Villeurbanne, France

Full Bibliographic Reference for this paper
D. Bigaud, P. Hamelin, "Modeling of 2D and 3D Textile-Reinforced Composites by Means of Imbricate-Type Elements Approaches", in B.H.V. Topping, (Editor), "Computational Techniques for Materials, Composites and Composite Structures", Civil-Comp Press, Edinburgh, UK, pp 73-81, 2000. doi:10.4203/ccp.67.1.8
Abstract
This paper discusses on the stiffness and failure behaviour modelling of textile-reinforced composites (TRC). Different numerical and semianalytical approaches, based on a multilevel geometrical meshing which allows considering mechanical phenomena encountered at the filament, the yarn and the unit cell levels, are developed. The cases of a 2D woven and a 3D interlock braided composites are studied and their homogenised stiffness properties are compared to solutions provided by finite elements method (FEM) and the fabric geometry model (FGM). The modelled failure of both the 3D and 3D TRC are compared to experimental data.

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