Nenglong Yang

The University of Manchester · School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering

This paper investigates how combining natural and synthetic fibers within yarns, altering the degree of hybridisation, and varying weave architectures affect the homogenized elastic properties and stress distributions in 2D woven composite laminae using a two‐scale homogenization scheme. The novelty lies in integrating a micro‐scale representative...

In this paper, the effect of intra-yarn fibre hybridisation on the homogenised elastic properties and micro- and meso-scale matrix stress fields in 2D woven composite laminae (i.e. plain, 2/2 basket, 2/2 twill and 5-harness satin) is studied with a two-scale homogenisation scheme—employing a representative volume element model at micro-scale and a...

This study investigates the effect of intra-laminar fibre hybridisation on the homogenised lamina properties and micro-stress fields, with an emphasis on natural and synthetic fibre combinations. A representative volume element (RVE) approach, considering random fibre distributions, is employed to study unidirectional flax/E-glass/epoxy composite l...

In this paper, the effect of intra-yarn hybridisation on the macroscopic homogenised properties of natural fibre-based hybrid composites (NFHCs) was computationally investigated. Many researchers have experimentally investigated hybrid effects on their mechanical properties. Only a limited number of computational studies on NFHCs have been reported...