Advanced Search

Journal Navigation

Journal Home

Subscriptions

Archive

Contact Us

Table of Contents

Sign In to gain access to subscriptions and/or personal tools.
Textile Research Journal
This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow References
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to Saved Citations
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Right arrow Request Reprints
Right arrow Add to My Marked Citations
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Right arrow Citing Articles via Scopus
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Ning Pan
Right arrow Articles by Yoon, M.-Y.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Complore   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us   Add to Digg   Add to Reddit   Add to Technorati   Add to Twitter  
What's this?

Structural Anisotropy, Failure Criterion, and Shear Strength of Woven Fabrics

Ning Pan

University of California at Davis, Davis, California 95616, U.S.A.

Mee-Young Yoon

University of California at Davis, Davis, California 95616, U.S.A.

For structural and load-carrying applications, more detailed information about woven fabrics, which are increasingly used as reinforcements for composites, is desirable for design purposes. This paper investigates the issues related to woven fabric strength. First, the direction dependence or anisotropy of tensile strength as well as the breaking strain and initial modulus of the fabrics are examined experimentally. A harmonic expression is then adopted to approximate the experimental results so that this tensile strength anisotropy can be expressed analytically. Moreover, the Tsai-Wu failure cri terion is used, assuming it is valid for woven fabrics, at least at the first quadrant where failure stresses are all tensile. Unknown coefficients in the failure criterion are deter mined based on the experimental results. Fabric shear strength is then predicted based on the measured uniaxial tensile strengths of the fabric at the principal and off-axial directions. Influences of various directions of the off-axial tensile test on predictions of fabric shear strength are also studied.

Textile Research Journal, Vol. 66, No. 4, 238-244 (1996)
DOI: 10.1177/004051759606600409
Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Complore Complore   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us   Add to Digg Digg   Add to Reddit Reddit   Add to Technorati Technorati   Add to Twitter Twitter    What's this?