Yu. M. Tarnpol’skii1,
V. L. Kulakov1, D. D. Mungalov2 and A. I. Beyle3
1Institute of Polymer
Mechanics, Riga, LV-1006, Latvia
23TEX INC., Cary, NC 27511,
USA
3 Dep. of Chemical Eng., McGill University, Montreal,
Quebec, H3A 2B2, Canada
Keywords: 3-D textile composites, spatial braiding, effective elastic properties, method
of orientational averaging