A multiaxial warp knitting based yarn path manipulation technology for the production of bionic-inspired multifunctional textile reinforcements in lightweight composites

Composites have now revolutionized most industries, like aerospace, marine, electrical, transportation, and have proved to be a worthy alternative to other traditional materials. However for a further comprehensive usage, the tailorability of hybrid composites according to the specific application needs on a large-scale production basis is required. In this regard, one of the major fundamental research fields here involves a technology development based on the multiaxial warp-knitting technique for the production of bionic-inspired and application-specific textile preforms that are force compliant and exhibit multi-material design. This article presents a newly developed yarn (warp) path manipulation unit for multiaxial warp-knitting machines that enables a targeted production of customized textile preforms with the above characteristics. The technological development cycle and their experimental validation to demonstrate the feasibility of new technology through production of some patterns for different field of applications are then discussed.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:DRESDEN/oai:qucosa:de:qucosa:35615
Date09 October 2019
CreatorsSankaran, Vignaesh, Ruder, Tristan, Rittner, Steffen, Hufnagl, Evelin, Cherif, Chokri
PublisherSage
Source SetsHochschulschriftenserver (HSSS) der SLUB Dresden
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
Typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion, doc-type:article, info:eu-repo/semantics/article, doc-type:Text
Rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Relation1530-8057, 10.1177/1528083714555778

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