**4. Conclusions**

This paper presented several aspects of the draping of nonwoven fabric composite on complex mold geometry. The kinematic approach is well-adapted to preliminary design level. It is based on a modified MOSAIC algorithm, which is suitable to generate a regular quad mesh repre‐ senting the draping of woven fabric on curved surfaces. In order to obtain suitable deformation of nonwoven during the draping operation, modified kinematic algorithm based on the shear angle criterion is proposed. This algorithm allowed step-by-step stretching of weaving yarns using iterative procedure. Some numerical examples concerning the draping of woven or nonwoven fabric are presented in order to demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed ap‐ proach. They provide a good correlation with the experimental results.
