Experimental and theoretical studies of fabric compaction behavior in resin transfer molding

Influence of Tow Architecture on Compaction and Nesting in Textile Preforms

“…From Fig. 6, it can be seen that there is a reduction in the average layer thickness of all these fabrics with increasing number of layers, which is considered to be due to nesting of the layers [8]. This observation of reduction of average layer thickness with increasing number of layers is in agreement with the literature [7,11,17,26].…”

“…From Fig. 8, it can also be seen that fibre volume fraction of the three structures increases with increase in number of layers which is due to nesting of layers in multilayer stack [8,11,26]. …”

“…Experimental research on the compression of plain weave fabric can be found in previous literature [4,8,11,17,20,21]. The compression response of non-crimp stitched fabrics has also been reported [22][23][24][25].…”

“…Extensive research work has been reported in the literature on the compaction behaviour of different fabrics [4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15]. Van Wyk [16] was probably one of the first researchers to treat the fibres under compression as a system of bending units.…”

“…The effect of the reinforcement architecture on the compaction behaviour has been studied by various researchers [8,13,[17][18][19]. Experimental research on the compression of plain weave fabric can be found in previous literature [4,8,11,17,20,21].…”