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Characterisation of 3D woven textile composites in presence of minor weft tow undulations and cross-section variations (2024)
Journal Article
Xu, M., Sitnikova, E., Kong, W., Zhang, J., Hu, S., & Li, S. (2024). Characterisation of 3D woven textile composites in presence of minor weft tow undulations and cross-section variations. Journal of Composite Materials, 58(25), 2671-2691. https://doi.org/10.1177/00219983241270939

Weft tows in 3D woven composites are commonly approximated as perfectly straight, but their undulations are inevitable in reality, although the extent of undulations in the weft tows is not as pronounced as in the warp tows. Such minor undulations in... Read More about Characterisation of 3D woven textile composites in presence of minor weft tow undulations and cross-section variations.

A failure criterion for genuinely orthotropic materials and integration of a series of criteria for materials of different degrees of anisotropy (2024)
Journal Article
Xu, M., Sitnikova, E., & Li, S. (2024). A failure criterion for genuinely orthotropic materials and integration of a series of criteria for materials of different degrees of anisotropy. Royal Society Open Science, 11(5), Article 240205. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.240205

Existing failure criteria for orthotropic materials are subject to an underlying assumption which cause contradictions when applied to genuinely orthotropic materials that are significantly anisotropic in elasticity as well as in strengths. For such... Read More about A failure criterion for genuinely orthotropic materials and integration of a series of criteria for materials of different degrees of anisotropy.