Hollow woven fabrics applications

Usually, hollow woven fabrics are woven with the tunnels in the weft direction. However, hollow fabric with uneven surfaces can also be made in the warp direction for applications in which long tunnel length is necessary, whereas hollow fabric with flat... 

A variety of shapes can be fabricated for composite applications, from hollow tubular (with in-laid, non-interlaced yams) to solid sections, including I-beams. Unlike woven fabrics, braided structures can be directly laid on a three-dimensional mandrel by passing it through the braiding ring (Fig. 1.6) and hence producing seamless, near-net shapes. For example, aircraft propeller blades are produced by using this... 

In general terms, the woven hollow fabrics are a special type of hollow solids. Such structures have found wide use in many areas including thermal insulation, packaging, structural, and buoyancy, as well as some other applications (Gibson and Ashby, 1999). As a structural material, they have been notably used in civil engineering and aerospace engineering. 

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