2D braided composites: A review for stiffness critical applications

C Ayranci, J Carey - Composite Structures, 2008‏ - Elsevier
Composite materials offer numerous advantages over conventional engineering metals.
Over the years, the use of composite materials has increased significantly. Braiding is a …

On the variability of permeability induced by reinforcement distortions and dual scale flow in liquid composite moulding: A review

M Bodaghi, SV Lomov, P Simacek, NC Correia… - Composites Part A …, 2019‏ - Elsevier
A comprehensive review of experimental and analytical studies since 1990 on the variability
of permeability induced by fibrous media (reinforcement) distortions across the composite …

Modeling the geometry of textile reinforcements for composites: TexGen

LP Brown, AC Long - Composite reinforcements for optimum performance, 2021‏ - Elsevier
This chapter provides an overview of TexGen, the open-source software package for 3D
modeling of textiles and their composites developed at the University of Nottingham. The …

[PDF][PDF] Geometric and mechanical modelling of textiles

M Sherburn - 2007‏ - academia.edu
The quality of a composite material produced using a textile reinforcement depends largely
on the way the textile deforms during processing. To ensure the production of high quality …

Modelling and simulating textile structures using TexGen

H Lin, LP Brown, AC Long - Advanced materials research, 2011‏ - Trans Tech Publ
This paper provides an overview of TexGen, the open source software package for 3D
modelling of textiles and their composites developed at the University of Nottingham. The …

[HTML][HTML] Application of X-ray computed tomography for the virtual permeability prediction of fiber reinforcements for liquid composite molding processes: A review

MA Ali, R Umer, KA Khan, WJ Cantwell - Composites Science and …, 2019‏ - Elsevier
X-ray computed tomography (XCT) combined with computer simulations have proved to be
an extremely powerful and versatile tool for material characterization in recent years. The …

Internal geometric modelling of 3D woven composites: A comparison between different approaches

N Isart, B El Said, DS Ivanov, SR Hallett, JA Mayugo… - Composite …, 2015‏ - Elsevier
The mechanical behaviour of 3D woven composite materials is affected by deformations as
resulting from the manufacturing process. The present study is based on comparison of …

Automated geometric modelling of textile structures

H Lin, X Zeng, M Sherburn, AC Long… - Textile Research …, 2012‏ - journals.sagepub.com
An automated approach (TexGen) for modeling the geometry of textile structures is
presented. This model provides a generic approach to the description of yarn geometry and …

[HTML][HTML] An automatic methodology to CT-scans of 2D woven textile fabrics to structured finite element and voxel meshes

W Wijaya, MA Ali, R Umer, KA Khan, PA Kelly… - Composites Part A …, 2019‏ - Elsevier
This paper presents a novel methodology to isolate the individual tow information contained
within relatively low resolution µCT scans of real textile specimens. The proposed method …

Permeability of textile reinforcements: Simulation, influence of shear and validation

B Verleye, R Croce, M Griebel, M Klitz… - Composites science and …, 2008‏ - Elsevier
The permeability of textile reinforcements is a crucial input for the simulation of the
impregnation stage of a composite material fabrication process. In this paper, we present a …