Composites are materials formed by the combination of two or more components that acquire better
properties than the ones obtained by each component on its own. Composites have been widely used in the
industry due to its light weight and good mechanical properties. To improve these properties several layers of
reinforced material (e.g., carbon fibre) are overlapped which produce an increase in the fibre consumption. In
this sense Tailored Fibre Placement (TFP) embroidery can offer good opportunity to reduce the consumption
of reinforced fibre while improving the mechanical properties due to the alignment of the fibres in the effort
direction. This study analyzes the performance of carbon fibre reinforced composites with Polyester resin
made with TFP embroidery technology against flexural strength efforts and without using plain woven fabrics
to demonstrate that the use of reinforcement fabrics in composites can be optimized by a curved alignment of
the fibers. Two different structures were embroidered with TFP technology, one simulating a woven fabric
with straight unidirectional alignment of fibres in horizontal and vertical direction, and a second structure
made with curvilinear alignment of carbon fibers. After the study of the flexural mechanical properties an
improvement of 18% was obtained in maximum flexural strength.
Crystal Plasticity Based Modelling of Shear Response of Carbon Fibre Reinforced Composites
