**3. Recent progress on further understanding of the damage behavior of woven composites**

According to the aforementioned issues (section 2.1) for accurate damage modeling of woven composites, in light of their interwoven architectures—the main reason of superb behavior of these composites—there are several intrinsic distinctions that should be made between the mechanical behavior, particularly failure mechanism of long-fiber woven and UD composites. Before developing further enhanced and realistic damage models for woven composites, it is believed that the underlying sources of complexity need to be explored under various loading types. Among these, the impact of inherent in-plane waviness—misalignment—and out-ofplane waviness in yarns—crimping—on the damage mechanism of woven composites under tensile and bending modes has been recently investigated by the authors [67, 68], and is briefly reviewed here.
