Numerical modelling of thermally bonded nonwovens: Continuous and discontinuous approaches

Solid State Phenomena

Volumn 188, Issue , 2012, Pages 164-169

  Demirci, Emrah ^a   Hou, Xiaonan ^b   Acar, Memiş ^a   Pourdeyhimi, Behnam ^c   Silberschmidt, Vadim V ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^c NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anisotropy; Bond point; Finite element; Nonwoven fabric; Orientation distribution function; Polymer; Randomly oriented fibres

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); FIBERS; MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; POLYMERS; WEAVING; CHEMICAL BONDS; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

ANISOTROPIC MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; BOND POINT; BONDING PROCESS; CHEMICAL TECHNIQUES; COMPOSITE MICROSTRUCTURES; FINITE ELEMENT; HIGH-DENSITY; LOW DENSITY; MECHANICAL BEHAVIOUR; MECHANICAL RESPONSE; NON-TRIVIAL; NON-WOVEN; NONWOVEN WEBS; NONWOVENS; NUMERICAL MODELLING; ORIENTATION DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION; POLYMER MATERIALS; RANDOM ORIENTATIONS; SHELL ELEMENT; THERMAL BONDING; WEB STRUCTURES; BOND POINTS; RANDOMLY-ORIENTED FIBRES;

NONWOVEN FABRICS;

EID: 84861453122     PISSN: 10120394     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.4028/www.scientific.net/SSP.188.164     Document Type: Conference Paper

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