Technical knitted fabric structures terms and definitions, limitations of two-dimensional textile structures, introduction to three-dimensional knitted fabric structures, applications of three-dimensional knitted textiles, three-dimensional knitting machines and process control, physical and mechanical properties of three-dimensional knitted fabrics, introduction to multiaxial knitted fabrics, general structure and behavior of multiaxial knitted fabrics, advantages of multiaxial knitted fabrics, manufacture of multiaxial knitted fabrics, mechanical properties of multiaxial knitted fabrics, formability of multiaxial knitted fabrics, introduction and classification of braided structures, geometry of tubular braids, elements of a tubular braiding machine, differences between flat and tubular braid, limitations of braiding systems, triaxial braided structures, three-dimensional braided structures and their production methods, two and three dimensional braided structures, physical and mechanical properties of braided structures