Abstract
An analytical and experimental study of the energy storage in a fabric element is pre sented in this paper. The flexural and the tensile energies are evaluated and compared for a better understanding of filament response under static loadings. Past analyses of textile fabrics have been based on various assumptions regarding the storage of strain energy in the fabric; as a result of this study it appears that an analysis that is based on tensile energy storage (and that neglects flexural energy storage) may adequately describe the behavior of the common fabric configurations.
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