Modelling the geometry of textile reinforcements for composites: WiseTex

Abstract: The WiseTex family of models and software provides a generic description of the internal geometry of textile reinforcements, covering a wide range of textile structures – woven (2D and 3D), braided, non-crimp fabric, knitted and stitched. The components of the WiseTex suite simulate properties of textile fabrics and composites on a unit cell level and are used for multilevel micro–meso–macro analysis. The chapter describes models of geometry and deformability of woven (2D and 3D), braided (bi-and triaxial) and non-crimp fabric (NCF) reinforcements, implemented in the WiseTex software package. The model description for each class of textile reinforcements includes coding of the corresponding textile architecture and principles of building a geometrical model of the textile, which provides a full description of the yarn placement. The WiseTex geometrical models serve as input data for models of mechanical properties of textile composites, deformability of the textile reinforcements in tension, shear and compression, and permeability of textiles.

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