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Computer Simulation of the Mechanical Properties of Nonwoven Fabrics

Part I: The Method

Chicopee, Milltown, New Jersey 08850, U.S.A.

Arthur J. Sampson

Chicopee, Milltown, New Jersey 08850, U.S.A.

C.F. Elliott, JR

Kinard Laboratory of Physics and Astronomy, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina 29631, U.S.A.

H.W. Graben

Kinard Laboratory of Physics and Astronomy, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina 29631, U.S.A.

W.E. Gettys

Kinard Laboratory of Physics and Astronomy, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina 29631, U.S.A.

We are developing a computer simulation method of predicting the mechanical properties of nonwoven fabrics based on a fundamental microscopic description of the system. The program starts with the known mechanical properties of a given fiber laid out in a web of a particular initial geometry that is held together by some specified means. The evolution of the fabric system as it undergoes a selected distortion is then computed from first principles without recourse to any fabric data. This general method is illustrated with a randomly generated fabric model.

Textile Research Journal, Vol. 53, No. 6, 363-368 (1983)
DOI: 10.1177/004051758305300607


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