A multi-scale modelling framework for investigating the non-linear mechanical behaviour of plain woven composites is proposed. The macro and micro simulations are coupled by a developed interface in which the mechanical behaviour of the micro-structure is served as the constitutive law of macro-continuum. The degradation and failure that occur at the macro structure are integrated with the micro-cracks in such a case. Some problems, e.g. the stress localisation effect introduced by the discontinuity of the multi-scale structures, are solved by the introduction of the non-local approach. Besides, the machine learning model is adopted for the surrogate modelling to realise the reduction of the substantial computational source required by the multi-scale problem. Cases are investigated in this paper in which a good agreement of the obtained simulation results to predictions is obtained.

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