Multiscale Analysis of Damage Progression in Reinforced Textile Composite

Abstract

Woven textiles are used as reinforcements in the composite materials in order to create balanced layer properties and enhance mechanical properties. This paper examines the behavior of two-dimension woven textile composite subjected to tensile behavior and the examination of its damage progression using a finite method technique. At first, this work is intended to develop a way for designing the internal geometry of textile geometry basis on the actual geometry of woven textile fabrics. Then, a user subroutine is created to predict the progress of damage and the degradation of a plain fabric under tensile loading. The modeling results indicate a good agreement between theoretical results and experimental results in which this work incorporates a detailed model and an applied subroutine.