Mechanics of textile composites: Micro-geometry

Composites Science and Technology

Volumn 68, Issue 7-8, 2008, Pages 1671-1678

  Miao, Yuyang ^a   Zhou, Eric ^a   Wang, Youqi ^a   Cheeseman, Bryan A ^b  

^a Sunflower Networking Group   (United States)

^b U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

A. Fabrics textiles; A. Textile composites; B. Modelling; C. Finite element analysis (FEA); Fabric geometry

Indexed keywords

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MESH GENERATION; TEXTILE PROCESSING; YARN;

CONTACT-ELEMENT FORMULATION; DIGITAL ELEMENT ANALYSIS; FABRIC GEOMETRY; TEXTILE COMPOSITES;

TEXTILE BLENDS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FIBER REINFORCED COMPOSITE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MECHANICS;

EID: 42249098695     PISSN: 02663538     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compscitech.2008.02.018     Document Type: Article

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