Triaxial Woven Fabrics

Abstract

This paper describes some of the unique properties and performance characteristics of triaxial woven fabrics. With three systems of yarn interlacing at sixty-degree angles with one another, triaxial woven fabrics provide less of an anistotropic behavior and offer an alternative to the inherent structural weaknesses of biaxial woven fabrics: It is shown that triaxial woven fabrics exhibit a relatively higher and more uniform resistance to extension, shear deformation, and burst deformation than comparable biaxial woven fabrics.