Study on Modeling of Spread Tow Structure of Composite Material in TexGen

Because of the advantage properties,the spread tow structure was widely used in composite material industry. TexGen software was an open source software which developed by University of Nottingham to model the geometry of textile composites. In this study, the Python script was used to create the textile of experimental part and the spread tow structure was created though adding nodes to the existing model in TexGen, which was the first time that the TexGen was used to create spread tow of composite material. After that the domain of the model was generated, as well as finite element mesh was created and two types of structure data were generated from the mesh. More importantly, the model created in the study could not only meet the requirements of the experimental part but also be spread to other structure.