Kurt, Elif Kalkanlı2024-10-292024-10-292024979-889113354-9https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11776/12654The use of textile preforms in composite materials has increased over the years. The production of complex shape preforms with lightweight and cost advantages through the automated textile process has brought textiles to the forefront in advanced applications. Today, textile preforms have been used in a wide variety of applications from medical to aerospace. Weaving, knitting, braiding, and stitching technologies have been utilized to create two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) textile preforms from high- performance fibers and/or natural fibers for advanced composite materials. The textile- reinforced composites have different mechanical properties depending on their manufacturing techniques, fiber topology, and design pattern. For instance, 2D textile preforms in which yarn is aligned only in the plane (x- and y- direction) of the laminate have low interlaminar fracture resistance through the thickness (z-direction). To improve the mechanical performance of the 2D fiber-reinforced composites, 3D textile architectures have been introduced which have a binder yarn through their thickness. 3D manufacturing techniques enable to creation of multiaxial complex near-net-shaped textile preforms with cost efficiency. This chapter outlines current and previous research on textile preforms manufacturing techniques: weaving, braiding, knitting, and stitching, and highlights their future aspects. © 2024 by Nova Science Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessBraidingKnittingStitchingWovenBook Chapter2152262-s2.0-85192339268