Improving advanced two-dimensional braided composite materials for industrial applications: manufacturing, testing and modeling

近几十年来，航空航天、汽车、生物医学、民用、运动器材等领域都在使用复合材料。复合材料的生产和使用构成了一个价值数十亿美元的产业。复合材料由于其轻质、高机械性能和环保性能，已经彻底改变了许多行业。这些特性节省了大量的能源和材料。辫子是最古老的纺织品之一。最近，高端行业已经探索或正在使用编织复合材料作为产品和组件开发的一种可能选择。编织复合材料是非常通用的材料，高度适应于许多应用。与其他复合材料制造工艺相比，编织复合材料的发展相对缓慢。一种像编织一样通用的制造技术伴随着大量的考虑和复杂性。很少有行业使用编织复合材料的原因是，在开发和使用先进的编织复合材料方面存在许多挑战：制造质量，对其在复杂和疲劳载荷下的性能和行为的全面了解，以及预测其性能。对于那些有兴趣考虑编织复合材料的人来说，系统的总体成本和所需的研究通常使其成为一个低回报的投资解决方案。然而，如果这些挑战在最先进的研究设施中得到成功解决，编织可以成为许多行业先进制造的主要内容。

In recent decades, the aerospace, automotive, biomedical, civil, sports equipment fields, for example, have been using composite materials. Composite materials production and use constitute a multi-billion dollar industry. Composite materials have revolutionized a number of industries due to their lightweight, high mechanical performance, and environmental resistance. Such characteristics have led to important energy and material savings. Braids are one of the oldest textiles. Recently, high end industries, have explored, or are using, braided composite materials as one possible option in product and component development. Braided composites are very versatile materials, highly adaptable to a number of applications. The uptake of braided composites has been relatively slow compared to other composite material manufacturing processes. A manufacturing technique that is as versatile as braiding comes with a large number of considerations and complexities. The reasons few industries are using braided composites is that there are a number of challenges in developing and using advanced braided composite material: quality of manufacturing, comprehensive understanding of their properties and behaviour under complex and fatigue loading, and as a result, predicting their properties. For those interested in considering braided composites, the overall costs of the systems and the research required, often makes it a low return on investment solution. However, if these challenges are successfully addressed in a state-of-the-art equipped research facility, braiding can become a staple of advanced manufacturing for a very board range of industries.