(488ah) Visualization of Fiber Orientation IN Short Glass Fiber Thermoplastic COMPOSITES USING A Virtual Reality MODELING Language (VRML) Tool

Orientation tensors are commonly used to represent orientation in fiber composites. They are excellent and compact tool to describe the orientation in mathematical terms. However, the visualization of the orientation tensors is not straight forward. Therefore, in this paper we present a simple method to visualize fiber orientation in composite using a virtual reality modeling language (VRML) tool. This tool is used to describe the experimental orientation and simulation results for an injection molded center-gated disk. The results show an easy way to visualize and understand the complex structure of orientation in composites.