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Volume 9, Issue 1, 2000
Deep Drawing of Plain Weft-Knitted Fabric Composites. Part 2.: Strain Field Analysis

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

(Received 8/99; 11/99 accepted)

Abstract

Previous modelling techniques in sheet forming of textile composites have focused on computational simulations due to the numerous computations involved. Recently a procedure for stretch forming analysis of plain weft-knitted fabric composites has been developed. The analytical model for the stretch forming process is now being extended for the deep drawing process in this paper. The theoretical strain field gives good approximation to the experimental results.

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