The review about the numerical modelling and analysis of 3D woven fabrics

The 3D woven fabrics have superior mechanical behaviours thanks to their extraordinary structural design and properties. By this means, they and their reinforced composites have been increasingly demanded from various application areas such as aviation, defence, automotive and so on. The physical properties of 3D woven fabrics have been endeavoured to determine thanks to the numerical methods by the number of research studies. The prediction of complex mechanical behaviour of 3D woven fabrics gives lots of advantages the designers to get desired last product properties. The studies, which were carried out on the modelling and analysis of mechanical properties of 3D woven fabrics owing to computer aided numerical methods, were reviewed and summarized in the present study. The reviewed studies were examined according to the computer aided modelling parameters which are the size and type of element, the material model, modelling scale approaches and the border conditions. In addition, the modelling problems that caused discrepancies with the experimental results were comprehensively mentioned