Architectural membrane (fabrics and foils) buildings have attracted considerable attention
due to good material properties, adjustable building performance and reasonable load …

Membrane structures are increasingly in demand due to their lightweight properties and
expressive architectural shapes. However, there does not yet exist a unified design …

Textile composites made of woven fabrics have demonstrated excellent mechanical
properties for the production of high specific-strength products. Research efforts in the …

The quality of a composite material produced using a textile reinforcement depends largely
on the way the textile deforms during processing. To ensure the production of high quality …

A macroscale finite element (FE) model was developed to simulate the forming behaviour of
biaxial fabrics, incorporating the effects of bending stiffness to predict fabric wrinkling. The …

A novel picture frame tester concept is introduced, allowing shear characterisation of
reinforcement fabrics with both untensioned and defined membrane tension states …

Stamping operation is the most efficient way to form textile composites in industry. During a
stamping process, the material undergoes large shear deformation, which may lead to two …

The article proposes an Equivalent Single Layer (ESL) formulation for the linear static
analysis of arbitrarily-shaped shell structures subjected to general surface loads and …

Woven fabrics are used in many applications, including ballistic armors, propulsion engine
containment systems and fabric reinforced composites. In order to facilitate the design and …

An analytical-experimental study of the shear wrinkling behavior of plain woven composite
preforms under bias extension test (BET) and picture frame test (PFT) is presented. The …