Stiffness and Buckling Behavior of Woven Columns

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Main Authors: Krankel, Jaimie, Tu, Guowei Wayne, Filipov, Evgueni T.
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Published: 2025
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author Krankel, Jaimie
Tu, Guowei Wayne
Filipov, Evgueni T.
author_facet Krankel, Jaimie
Tu, Guowei Wayne
Filipov, Evgueni T.
contents Woven shell structures are beneficial for applications requiring lightweight, damage resilience, and design tunability, such as in wearable devices, soft robotics, and aerospace systems. A fundamental component of woven structures is the woven column. While the mechanical properties of a woven column can be determined using sophisticated finite element (FE) simulations, these FE models are computationally expensive and do not explain the underlying mechanics behind scaling relationships. In this work, we derive purely analytical models for the buckling load and stiffness of woven columns, and discuss the criteria that lead to different buckling modes of the woven columns. The simulated results based on our models closely match experimental data across various weave design parameters. This work advances our understanding of the mechanics of woven systems and serves as a baseline for the design of next-generation hierarchical structures and materials.
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spellingShingle Stiffness and Buckling Behavior of Woven Columns
Krankel, Jaimie
Tu, Guowei Wayne
Filipov, Evgueni T.
Applied Physics
Woven shell structures are beneficial for applications requiring lightweight, damage resilience, and design tunability, such as in wearable devices, soft robotics, and aerospace systems. A fundamental component of woven structures is the woven column. While the mechanical properties of a woven column can be determined using sophisticated finite element (FE) simulations, these FE models are computationally expensive and do not explain the underlying mechanics behind scaling relationships. In this work, we derive purely analytical models for the buckling load and stiffness of woven columns, and discuss the criteria that lead to different buckling modes of the woven columns. The simulated results based on our models closely match experimental data across various weave design parameters. This work advances our understanding of the mechanics of woven systems and serves as a baseline for the design of next-generation hierarchical structures and materials.
title Stiffness and Buckling Behavior of Woven Columns
topic Applied Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.01118