In recent years, the use of woven fabric composite materials has been increased due to their superior mechanical performance and low weight. Unit cell finite element modeling of these materials at meso level has proven to be an efficient method to predict their effective mechanical properties and reduce the need for extensive experiments. However, benchmark experiments reveal non-repeatability of test data at macro level which can be related to the uncertainties underlying fabric structure at meso level. This suggests that ideal unit cells of woven fabrics may be incapable of predicting...
In recent years, the use of woven fabric composite materials has been increased due to their superior mechanical performance and low weight. Unit cell...