Volume 8, Issue 3, 1999

Stretch Forming Analysis Of Knitted Fabric Composites

T.C. Lim, S. Ramakrishna, H.M. Shang

Department of Mechanical and Production Engineering, The National University of Singapore, 10 Kent Ridge Crescent, Singapore 119260

ABSTRACT

Recently the effects of knitted fabric reinforcement on the sheet forming of polymer sheets have been investigated, and shown to provide strength and a more distributed strain. A new method for predicting the strain distribution of a stretch formed knitted fabric composite sheet is proposed in this paper. A good agreement was observed between the predicted and the experimental results.




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