Proposing a virtual simulation method to predict the shape-fidelity of 3D-knitted-textiles using knit-meshes and geometric invariants
DIETRICH Franz
download PDFAbstract. Though the level of machine digitization in flatbed-knitting (FBK) today is high, the design and development of knittable data sets are still currently very time-consuming, digital simulations methods are calculation expensive and insufficient in terms of accuracy of fit and technical properties. Knitting process retrofitting activities are executed mostly manually by an operator on the basis of the operator´s experience. This circumstance makes it more difficult to use the diverse potential for flexibility and on-demand purposes in future-networked-production for lightweight constructions for Automotive, Aerospace and aviation or Medical-Products. New easy-to-learn, intuitive, calculation inexpensive digital augmented workflows for the planning of knitted objects with complex 3D-shapes are needed. With regard to the requirements of composite forming, the aspects of wrinkling, slip and permeability are of particular importance. However, flatbed-knitted fabrics are subject to different requirements in some cases, which implies different questions from those posed by research in the area woven textile composites. In order to address a few of the questions raised by previous research on textile composites, this paper covers some of the current research topics in the field of 3D-knitted flatbed-knitting fabrics and shows references as well as potentials to already researched problem fields of textile reinforced composites. In doing so, the author strongly refers to the topics of the summarizing publication “Advances in composite forming through 25 years of ESAFORM” by P. Boisse et al. [1].
Keywords
Flat-Knitting, CBS, Simulation, On-Demand, FEM
Published online 4/19/2023, 10 pages
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Citation: DIETRICH Franz, Proposing a virtual simulation method to predict the shape-fidelity of 3D-knitted-textiles using knit-meshes and geometric invariants, Materials Research Proceedings, Vol. 28, pp 239-248, 2023
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21741/9781644902479-26
The article was published as article 26 of the book Material Forming
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