Compaction modelling of textile preforms for composite structures

Composite Structures

Volumn 86, Issue 1-3, 2008, Pages 177-185

  Potluri, P ^a   Sagar, T V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

3D woven fabrics; Compaction; Energy minimisation; Nesting

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS; COMPOSITE STRUCTURES; COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY; COMPUTER NETWORKS; FABRICS; FORMING; GEOMETRY; PREFORMING; RESINS; TEXTILES; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VOLUME FRACTION; WOOL; YARN;

3-D FABRICS; CONSTITUTIVE PROPERTIES; DAMAGE INITIATION; ELASTIC PROPERTIES; ELSEVIER (CO); FIBRE VOLUME FRACTION; INDIVIDUAL (PSS 544-7); KAWABATA EVALUATION SYSTEM; MULTILAYER (ML); TEXTILE PREFORMS; TRANSVERSE COMPRESSION; YARN SEGMENTS;

COMPACTION;

COMPACTING; COMPOSITE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTIC PROPERTY; LAMINATE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PREFORM;

EID: 46749117909     PISSN: 02638223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compstruct.2008.03.019     Document Type: Article

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