Recent Efforts in Modeling and Simulation of Textiles

Abstract

In many textiles and fiber structures, the behavior of the material is determined by the structural arrangements of the fibers, their thickness and cross-section, as well as their material properties. Textiles are thin plates made of thin long yarns in frictional contact with each other that are connected via a rule defined by a looping diagram. The yarns themselves are stretchable or non-stretchable. All these structural parameters of a textile define its macroscopic behavior. Its folding is determined by all these parameters and the kind of the boundary fixation or loading direction. The next influencing characteristic is the value of the loading. The same textile can behave similar to a shell and work just for bending, or behave as a membrane with large tension deformations under different magnitudes of the loading forces. In our research, bounds on the loading and frictional parameters for both types of behavior are found. Additionally, algorithms for the computation of effective textile properties based on the structural information are proposed. Further focus of our research is the nature of folding, induced by pre-strain in yarns and some in-plane restriction of the textile movements, or by the local knitting or weaving pattern and the yarn’s cross-sections. Further investigations concern different applications with spacer fabrics. Structural parameters influencing the macroscopic fabric behavior are investigated and a way for optimization is proposed. An overview of our published mathematical and numerical papers with developed algorithms is given and our numerical tools based on these theoretical results are demonstrated.

FEM Analysis of Textile Reinforced Composite Materials Impact Behavior

“…These models concern mainly 2D knitted fabrics. Still, a literature survey shows a limited number of models dealing with the mechanical behavior of warp knitted spacers exemplified by [ 17 , 18 , 19 ], as well as weft knitted spacers [ 20 , 21 ]. The model proposed by Hamedi [ 21 ], simulates the flexural behavior of weft knitted spacer fabrics with a constant width (connected through knitted layers), considering the geometrical specificities proposed by Vassiliadis [ 22 ].…”

Quantitative analysis of monofilament architecture in three-dimensional mesh fabric using micro X-ray computed tomography

“…This is because the cross-sections of the monofilament loops are perpendicular to the slices whose centroids are hard to extract by image processing. Although some pure geometric models of spacer fabrics by using inauthentic structural information have been created with monofilament loops, [20][21][22][23] a complete and realistic monofilament architecture of spacer fabric has still not been obtained. In connection with this, the structural features of 3D mesh fabrics have not been fully understood, which hinders structural optimization to improve the compression and ventilation properties.…”