Composite materials offer numerous advantages over conventional engineering metals.
Over the years, the use of composite materials has increased significantly. Braiding is a …

Textile composite is one of the important materials used in industry and is made from textile
substrates embedded in the matrices of different materials (see ref. 1). However, due to its …

Presenting a wealth of completely revised examples and new information, Introduction to
Composite Materials Design, Second Edition greatly improves on the bestselling first edition …

A structural composite is a material system consisting of two or more phases on a
macroscopic scale, whose mechanical performance and properties are designed to be …

Offers information on the fundamental principles, processes, methods and procedures
related to fibre-reinforced composites. The book presents a comparative view, and provides …

Among all building materials, concrete is the most commonly used—and there is a
staggering demand for it. However, as we strive to build taller structures with improved …

This paper addresses an application of a versatile yet user-friendly micromechanics model,
the bridging model, to simulate the mechanical properties of composites reinforced with …

The paper reviews the past and recent modeling techniques (both analytical and numerical)
pertaining to the mechanical behavior of textile-reinforced composites in general and woven …

This paper presents effective thermo-mechanical and thermal properties of plain-weave
fabric-reinforced composite laminates obtained from micromechanical analyses and a two …

In this study, a review of the progress made in analytical modeling of 2D and 3D textile
composites is presented. The review covers the most known analytical models developed in …