Theory of structure and mechanics of fibrous assemblies / Bohuslav Neckar & Dipayan Das.

Contents;

1. Basic properties of single fibers and fibrous assemblies
1.1 Fiber characteristics: definitions and relations
1.2 Characteristics of fibrous assemblies
1.3 Characteristics of fiber blend

2. Pores in fibrous assemblies
2.1 pores and their general characteristics
2.2 Some special variants of pores
2.3 Some possible applications

3. Arrangement of fibers - fiber orientation
3.1 Fiber orientation and its general description
3.2 Fiber orientation in a sectional plane
3.3 Mean sectional area of fiber, coefficient kn and number of fibers in a section
3.4 Model of fiber orientation in plane
3.5 Section of planar fiber assembly
etc.

4. Fiber-to-fiber contacts
4.1 Contacts according to van Wyk
4.2 Density and distances of contacts
4.3 Distribution of contact places
4.4 Modified probability of fiber-to-fiber contacts
4.5 Modified distribution of fiber contacts
etc.

5. Compression behaviour of fibrous assemblies
5.1 general relations and modelling strategy
5.2 Model of compression according to van Wyk
5.3 Empirical modification of van Wyk's model
5.4 An alternative model of compression
5.5 Experimental results of Baljasov
etc.

6. Mechanics of parallel bundles
6.1 Mechanics of simplest ideal parallel fiber bundle
6.2 Mechanics of bi-component parallel fiber bundle
6.3 Mechanics of multi-component parallel bundle
6.4 Mechanics of a complex parallel fiber bundle with variable fiber properties
6.5 Notes to bundle from staple fibers

7. Mechanics of non-parallel fiber bundles
7.1 Multi-axial textiles
7.2 Regular multi-axial textiles
7.3 Planar bundle with a continuous distribution of directions
etc.

Index : p. 321-324