Microstructural design of textile composites

Abstract

Textile composites are emerging as viable alternatives to other forms of composites in various structural applications. Understanding the dependence of overall mechanical properties of textile composites on its microstructure is important to derive an effective design. The present study is on the effect of geometrical and material properties of woven fabric (WF) composite microstructure on its overall mechanical properties. It is seen that the microstructural properties of WF composites give large flexibility to a designer to derive the required structural properties by judicially varying both the geometry and material parameters. © 1998 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.