Materials

• Test material: NCF composite laminates, 4 mm in thickness, made by the RIFT technology  

• Hexcel HexPly®M36 resin matrix and Tenax HTS 5632 12k carbon fibres

• Polyester stitching yarn (50 dtex) was used for connection with stitch length 2.5 mm. The final fibre volume fraction was 62%

• Stacking sequence for biaxial laminates: [(+45°/-45°), (0°/90°), (+45°/-45°), (0°/90°), (90°/0°), (+45°/-45°), (90°/0°), (+45°/-45°)]_s

• Stacking sequence for quadriaxial laminates: [+45°/0°/-45°/90°, +45°/0°/-45°/90°, 90°/-45°/0°/+45°,90°/-45°/0°/+45°]

• In both cases, a final fiber aerial weight of 267 g/m2 per layer was obtained