CONTENTS:-
Basic properties of single fibers and fibrous assemblies
-Fiber characteristics: definitions and relations
-Characteristics of fibrous assemblies
-Characteristics of fiber blend
-References
Pores in fibrous assemblies
-Pores and their general characteristics
-Some special variants of pores
-Some possible applications
-References
Arrangement of fibers – fiber orientation
-Fiber orientation and its general description
-Fiber orientation in a sectional plane
-Mean sectional area of fiber, coefficient kn and number of fibers in a section
-Model of fiber orientation in plane
-Section of planar fiber assembly
-Model of fiber orientation in a linear fibrous assembly – sliver
-References
Fiber-to-fiber contacts
-Contacts according to van Wyk
-Density and distances of contacts
-Distribution of contact places
-Modified probability of fiber-to-fiber contacts
-Modified distribution of fiber contacts
-Modified parameters of fiber contacts
-References
Compression behavior of fibrous assemblies
-General relations and modeling strategy
-Model of compression according to van Wyk
-Empirical modification of van Wyk’s model
-An alternative model of compression
-Experimental results of Baljasov
-Model of biaxial deformation
-References
Mechanics of parallel fiber bundles
-Mechanics of simplest ideal parallel fiber bundle
-Mechanics of bi-component parallel fiber bundle
-Mechanics of multi-component parallel fiber bundle
-Mechanics of a complex parallel fiber bundle with variable fiber properties
-Notes to bundle from staple fibers
-References
Mechanics of non-parallel fiber bundles
-Multi-axial textiles
-Regular multi-axial textiles
-Planar bundle with a continuous distribution of directions
-References
