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Staple spun yarn is used as preform for natural fiber reinforced composites. In addition, innovative techniques to make spun yarn from carbon nanotubes have recently emerged; this enables us to make carbon nanotube reinforced composites more easily. However, spun yarn has very complex geometry of staple fibers such as twist, migration and discontinuity. The complexity gives rise to difficulty for analyzing staple spun yarn. In this study, an analytical method for the mechanical behavior of staple spun yarn reinforced composites is developed using the theory of anisotropic elasticity.
