GEOMETRICAL AND FINITE-ELEMENT MODELING OF TEXTILE COMPOSITES

Previous analytical models for studying the response of textile reinfo rced composite materials have been based on either a homogenization of the textile architecture or a representation of the architecture with a type of three-dimensional classical lamination theory. In either ca se, the analyses are not capable of determining the details of the int ernal response of these highly complicated materials. Although more co stly than its predecessors, the present analysis is based on the detai led architecture developed previously and accounts for many of the geo metric complexities that other analyses ignore.