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Fatigue of Textile Composites provides a current, state-of-art review on recent investigations on the fatigue behavior of composite materials, mainly those reinforced with textiles. As this particular group of composite materials is extremely important for a wide variety of industrial applications, including automotive, aeronautical, and marine, etc., mainly due to their peculiarities and advantages with respect to unidirectional laminated composites, the text presents comprehensive information on the huge variety of interlacement geometric architectures that are suitable for a broad range

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Fatigue of Textile Composites provides a current, state-of-art review on recent investigations on the fatigue behavior of composite materials, mainly those reinforced with textiles. As this particular group of composite materials is extremely important for a wide variety of industrial applications, including automotive, aeronautical, and marine, etc., mainly due to their peculiarities and advantages with respect to unidirectional laminated composites, the text presents comprehensive information on the huge variety of interlacement geometric architectures that are suitable for a broad range

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In this master's thesis, experimental and numerical studies are performed on the deformability of a dry quasi-unidirectional woven flax fabric. Adequate experimental characterization methods and numerical models are needed in order to create predictive tools for draping processes in composites manufacturing. In this study the deformability of a quasi-unidirectional woven flax fabric is investigated. This fabric features natural, flax fibres and a strongly unbalanced weave structure. Previous research on the deformability of this kind of fabrics is very limited. The first part of the experimental work involves the characterization of the fabric in the four main deformation modes of woven textiles during forming: In-plane shear, tension, transverse compression and bending. The second experimental part focuses on the fabrics' deformability during double dome draping tests. After the experimental characterization, the fabric's deformability behaviour is implemented into the provided hyperelastic, numerical model. The results of this research show that the deformation mechanisms of the quasi-unidirectional woven flax fabric are comparable to those of carbon and glass textile reinforcements and that the fabric's behaviour is related to the specific unbalanced structure of the fabric. The fabric also shows good drapability for the double dome shaped mould. Numerically, the fabric's model parameters are identified but the provided model is not fully adequate to simulate the behaviour of thin, 2D woven textiles. The full experimental characterization of this specific fabric can be used for comparison with future works on this kind of fabrics. Further investigation of possible modifications of the hyperelastic model is needed in order create an adequate numerical tool for all kinds of woven fabrics.