Multiscale Modeling of Textile Composite Materials
1 Introduction 1.1 Introduction to textile composites Recently, significant growth in the development and applications of textile composites has been seen in many engineering fields such as automotive, aerospace and civil. Textile composites not only inherit the advantages of unidirectional composites, such as light-weight and high specific strength but also possess higher interlaminar shear strength, better damage tolerance and impact resistance as compared to unidirectional composites. Besides that, textile composites also offer lower manufacturing costs, ease of handling, and better drapability that makes them more suitable for manufacturing complex shapes. However, because of the complex microstructures, it is a much more challenging task to accurately predict the effective material behaviors of textile composites. ...