I. Verpoest1,2, S.V. Lomov1
The International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences, Vol.13, No.4, pp. 73-74, 2009, DOI:10.3970/icces.2009.013.073
Abstract The paper will first introduce the general approach developed at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven for modeling the internal structure of textiles and for prediction of the mechanical properties of textile based composites.
Then, the results of experimental observations of damage processes during tensile quasi-static and fatigue loading for carbon/epoxy textile composites will be presented, more specifically for (1) woven fabrics; (2) non-crimp fabrics (NCF); (3) structurally stitched NCF. The test methodology includes, apart from the “normal” tensile testing, registration of acoustic emission and full-field measurements of strains on the surface of the sample. The damage in the samples loaded… More >