Advances in Braiding Technology

Preface

Part I Braiding of three-dimensional profiles

1 An overview of three-dimensional braiding technologies

2 3D hexagonal braiding

3 3D maypole braiding

4 Cartesian 3D braiding

Part II Specialist braiding techniques and applications

5 Partial carrier occupation of maypole braiding machines

6 An overview of braiding structures in medical textiles: fibre based implants and tissue engineering

7 Braids in candles

8 Lever arm (rapid) braiding

Part III Braiding techniques for ropes

9 Manufacturing techniques for braided ropes

10 Rope finishing for braided ropes

11 Mechanical properties of braided Ropes as textile machine elements

12 Operational stability testing of braided textile machine elements

Part IV Braiding for composites

13 Yarn damage during braiding of reinforcement fibres for composites

14 Pultrusion of braids

15 Braided carbon fibre composites

16 Exemplary Manufacturing process of braided ZASCHE manipulator in serial production

17 Braiding pultrusion of thermoplastic composites

Part V Modelling and Simulation

18 Overbraiding simulation

19 Finite Element Method (FEM) Modelling of overbraiding

20 Embedded Finite Element modelling approach for 3D Cartesian braid reinforced composites

21 Geometrical modelling and computational mechanics tools for braided structures

22 Structural and tensile behaviors of braided reinforcements: characterization and model

23 Investigations about the braiding angle and the cover factor of braided fabrics using image processing and symbolic math toolbox of Matlab

Yordan Kyosev is the Head of the Chair of Assembly Technology for Textile Products, and Professor at the Institute of Textile Machinery and High-Performance Material Technology at Technische Universitat Dresden, Germany. He is the main developer of the world's first CAD braiding software packages TexMind Braider and Texmind Braiding Machine Configurator, and provides regular industrial courses and consulting for braiding (www.texmind.com). He was also the main organizer of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Braiding Colloquiums in Möchengladbach (2014, 2016, 2018). His research focuses on advanced modelling and processing methods for high performance textiles, and he is seen as a leading expert in braiding machinery and technology worldwide.