Reconstruction of mesostructural material twin models of engineering textiles based on Micro-CT Aided Geometric Modeling

Engineering textiles are used as fibrous reinforcements in high performance polymer composites. The mechanical properties of composite materials depend on their dual-scale porous structure: long and elongated microscopic open spaces (micropores) appear between the filaments of fiber tows, and up to two orders of magnitude larger mesoscopic spaces (mesopores) exist between yarns. Because of the complex structure of composites, it is difficult to...