ANALYTICAL METHODS FOR TEXTILE COMPOSITES
8.1
Tex-10
: Ramesh V. Marrey and Bhavani V. Sankar
B.V. Sankar and R.V. Marrey, “A Unit-Cell Model of Textile Composite Beams
for Predicting Stiffness Properties,”
Science and Technology, 1993,
49, pp. 61-69.
B.V. Sankar and R.V. Marrey, “Micromechanical Models for Textile Structural
Composites,” Proceedings of 13th Army Symposium on Solid Mechanics, 1993,
pp. 189-200.
R.V. Marrey and B.V. Sankar, “Evaluation of Finite Element Micromechanical
Analysis Methods for Textile Composites,” Proceedings of the 1994 ASME Winter
Annual Meeting, 94-WA/AERO-1, Nov. 6-11, 1994.
User Manual for
µ
Tex-10 and
µ
Tex-20. Includes well documented description
of input and output; instructions for compiling on different computers; limited
discussion of theory.
Format:
FORTRAN code which can be recompiled for the target machine. A parameter file
is provided for changing the maximum problem size.
Model:
The user must provide a series of points describing the locus of the centre of each
yarn. An additional set of points must be provided to give the cross-section of each
yarn in terms of an n-sided polygon. The yarn path is assumed to lie in a single
plane, which can be rotated to an arbitrary orientation. Multiple yarn paths can be
defined to generate various textile forms. Fiber volume fraction is computed from
the given geometry.
