Quality enhancement of roll formed woven fabric webs used in deck slabs

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The application of textile composites in engineered products has been driven by their ease of formability from an original two-dimensional planar shape to complex three-dimensional shapes, along with the combination of light weight and high stiffness and strength. These attractive material behavioral aspects have made textile composites of interest in a number of industries including aerospace, sports, and automotive. Among different types of textile composites, woven fabrics are sometime used as an interlaced assembly of weft and warp commingled yarns composed of reinforcing fibers and thermoplastic matrix material filaments. An in-depth understanding, and consequently improvement, of the forming processes applied to woven fabrics requires proper material modeling and simulation tools. Such models and tools can be vital during the optimization of forming processes to avoid costly replacement or reproduction of manufacturing components such as molds. This project primarily aims at developing a modeling and optimization tool to improve the mechanical