Embroidery for technical applications - tailored fibre placement

3 Embroidery for technical applications - tailored fibre placement 

With the aid of embroidery, through fibre orientation, fibre-composite components can be created to withstand complex forces. This is called tailored fibre placement, TFP.  

The cord can be made of glass, carbon or aramid fibres. Hybrid yarns, consisting of reinforcement and matrix fibres, can also be applied. 

To turn the embroidered goods into composites, conventional technologies can be used, such as layout by hand, resin injection processes or pressing. The composite can consist of embroidered products only, or of a combination of standard reinforcement structures. 

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