Preforming is an important step in the manufacturing of textile-reinforced composites with
resin infusion processes. It is important to control the fiber orientation to avoid fiber …

Piezoelectric, piezoresistive, and optical fiber sensors have attracted considerable attention
in structural health monitoring (SHM) applications for strain/temperature measurements in …

Continuous Fibre Reinforced Thermoplastics (CFRTPs) have made their way into the
aerospace an automotive industries as structural components. Thermoplastic composites …

A two-step, multi-scale progressive damage analysis is implemented to study the damage
and failure behaviors of 2D plain weave composites under various uniaxial and biaxial …

Tuning the piezoresistive behavior of conductive polymeric composites requires an in-depth
understanding of the structure-property relationships and deformation mechanisms at the …

With the view to minimise the impact on the environment and to produce structural parts with
a good production-rate/cost-ratio, the sheet forming of woven flax based fabric was …

This study concentrates on the possibility of forming a complex shape such as a tetrahedron
using two untwisted commercial flax based fabric reinforcements using the sheet forming …

This study aims to experimentally explore the influences of stamping conditions on the
variations in fiber yarn angle and material properties of continuous fiber reinforced …

Forming of continuous fibre reinforcements and thermoplastic resin commingled prepregs
can be performed at room temperature due to its similar textile structure. The “cool” forming …

Textile preforms have become materials of choice in numerous modern industries, partly
due to their superior conformability onto complex 3D mould shapes. Maximum formability of …