Towards an efficient simulation tool for textile modelling at meso-scale
Baptiste LACROIX, Auriane PLATZER, Julien COLMARS, Emmanuelle VIDAL-SALLE
Abstract. Designing and manufacturing composite parts require the knowledge of important topics such as fibre orientation and fibre volume content. Those geometric parameters have an influence not only on the impregnation operation but also on the final mechanical behaviour of the designed component. In the continuity of previous proposals, the present paper deals with improvements of the technique and recent results obtained on the simulation of textile simulations using the 3D solid-beam finite element previously presented using a mesoscopic approach at the reinforcement level.
Keywords
Fibrous Reinforcement, Yarn Modelling, Finite Element, Solid Beam
Published online 5/7/2025, 9 pages
Copyright © 2025 by the author(s)
Published under license by Materials Research Forum LLC., Millersville PA, USA
Citation: Baptiste LACROIX, Auriane PLATZER, Julien COLMARS, Emmanuelle VIDAL-SALLE, Towards an efficient simulation tool for textile modelling at meso-scale, Materials Research Proceedings, Vol. 54, pp 439-447, 2025
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21741/9781644903599-48
The article was published as article 48 of the book Material Forming
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