The use of warp interlock fabric inside textile composite protection against ballistic impact

The actual and near future trend in the composite field is to customize material in response to its application. One of these solutions may lie in the use of three-dimensional textile structure using different types of high performance yarn. Focusing on the 3D textile structure literature, different types of classification can be found.(1,2) Among these different kinds of structure, the warp interlock appears to be differently defined like: the 2.5 dimensions fabric, 3 dimensions multi layers fabric, multi layers interlacing fabrics.(3) This paper gives an overview of the different types of the warp interlock to be defined according to their performance on delamination and impact resistances.