Interlayer shifting between plies of woven fabrics is unavoidable during lay-up in liquid composite molding (LCM) and can induce large scatter in measured in-plane permeability. However, its quantitative effect on local flow remains poorly characterized. This work develops an integrated meso-scale framework combining a transversely isotropic hyperelastic yarn model, finite-element compaction analysis and voxel-resolved Stokes-Darcy flow simulations for a six-layer E-glass plain-weave EWR600-1000 reinforcement. The constitutive law is calibrated against restricted and unrestricted yarn compression tests and accurately reproduces the observed nonlinear stiffening under transverse compaction (R2 = 0.9881 and 0.9712). For 256 distinct in-plane interlayer shifting vectors, the compacted fiber volume fraction Vf at 0.1 MPa ranges from 42.5 % to 54.7 %, and the associated local in-plane permeabilities vary by more than one order of magnitude. The resulting map K(sx, sy) exhibits pronounced symmetries and diagonal repeatability. The predicted mean permeabilities (Kx = 5.2 × 10-11 m2, Ky = 1.23 × 10-10 m2) and anisotropy ratio (Kx/Ky = 0.42) agree closely with radial-flow experiments, while the simulated scatter forms a lower bound for the experimental variability. The proposed framework provides a quantitatively validated link between interlayer shifting and both local and effective in-plane permeability, offering guidance for robust design and variability management in LCM processes.
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