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Volume 8, Issue 2, 1999
Knitted Fabric Composite Sheet Forming Simulation Considering Fabric Realignment

T.C. Lim¹, M. Fujihara², M. Zako², S. Ramakrishna¹, H.M. Shang¹

¹Department of Mechanical and Production Engineering, The National University of Singapore, 10 Kent Ridge Crescent, Singapore 119260
²Department of Manufacturing Science, Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, 2-1 Yamada-oka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
ABSTRACT

In recent years, sheet forming of textile reinforced polymers have shown promising future applications. It is understood that the reorientation of fabric structure at the microscopic level alters the macroscopic constitutive relationship of the composite. In this paper, a new sheet forming simulation technique is proposed and being applied to knitted fabric composites.

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