Effect of Woven Fabric Crimp on Composite Materials

Abstract

Wide   ranges   of   textile   materials    are   used   in   many applications like apparel, medical textile and protective textile etc., also used in Geo textile application as composite material. In this composite, textile materials are used as Fibre, yarn, 2D fabric and 3D fabric.  There are different techniques to prepare composite material using textiles as reinforcement.  In recent days 3D fabric has developed in different method and structure. In this project, we studied about effect of crimp present in the fabric on properties of composite material.

Literature shows that if crimp increases the properties of composite will become decreases.  So, we selected low crimp weave woven fabric structure like Diamond and Dice weave.  These  structures  woven  as  2  layer,  3  layer  and  4  layer fabrics  and  converted  into  composite  material  keeping  these  3D fabrics   as   reinforcement.   Reinforcement   has   been   woven   in handloom   with   jacquard.    After   completion,   the   testing   of composite material for their flexural, tensile and impact characteristics has been done and it was observed that compared to plain and Dice weave structure has very low tensile, flexural characteristics than Diamond.   But   in case of impact strength Diamond 2 layer, 4 layer and Dice 3 layer has maximum values.