Modelling of Textile Structure for Advanced Applications

Abstract

In general, textiles are perceived as soft materials and structures and textile fibres can be organised into fabrics of different complexities to form new materials and structures. Textiles are widely used in many applications, ranging from clothing to advanced technical applications such as textile composites for the aerospace and other industries. Accurate understanding the relationships between the construction and technical behaviour of textiles is the key in engineering textile materials for the intended applications. This keynote paper introduces the modelling techniques for different textile materials and structures and reports on the latest progress in modelling textiles for ballistic protection. In this area of work, it is shown that the modelling results agreed with the experimental work well and modelling tool can be used to guide the ballistic materials effectively.