Abstract: The increasing use of composite materials in industry implies an increasing use of automatic processes between which LCM processes take a large place. The improvement of such processes needs an extensive use of numerical simulations for all the stages of the process. In particular, it is necessary to know how the dry reinforcement is shaped. This paper presents a hyperelastic constitutive model for textile composite reinforcement at large strain based on an additive potential representative to tension and in-plane shearing. The proposed potential is a function of the right Cauchy Green and structural tensor invariants whose choice corresponds to textile composite reinforcement mechanical behaviour. The model is implemented in a user subroutine of ABAQUS/Explicit. The accuracy of the model has been checked and some simulations are performed on deep drawing with hemispheric punch. A good agreement is obtained with experimental forming experiments. © 2011 American Institute of Physics.