Textile materials from polyester fibres are sensitive to washing, especially at higher temperatures, due their thermoplastic properties, hydrophobic nature and sensitivity the alkaline medium. The issue of microplastic fibres’ (MFs’) release textiles is a topic that attracts attention researchers different scientific fields, since microplastics now among serious environmental risks. In this stu...

Fibre and textile-reinforced mortars are increasingly being used for a variety of building applications, including the strengthening masonry structures. Lime reinforced with sustainable fibres (such as vegetable or cellulosic fibres) may provide an interesting solution. In this paper, mixture commercial lime 20% metakaolin addition was to produce composites non-woven flax fabrics that were cure...

Development in technical textiles especially nonwoven fabrics/materials offers a brightly limitless prospect for the textile industry to lance into an extensive series of applications ranging from earth space and beyond. Nonwoven industrial wipes fabric properties are result production technology combination constructional parameters. This work looks effect parameters on desired fabricated by n...

Twisted polymer fibre actuators provide high torsional rotation from stimulated volume expansion, induced either by chemical fuelling, thermal stimulation, or electrochemical charging. One key limitation of these is the irreversibility stroke that limits their feasibility when considering real-life smart applications. Moreover, scaling becomes difficult are integrated into practically usable sy...

Introduction The development of smart textiles that yield information on the environment of human beings and their health status is very challenging. The integration of electronics into textiles has reached a high maturity for e.g. heating of napkins, shoe soles, gloves and seats. There have been many approaches to measure heart rate or blood pressure with sensors integrated into textiles (Cher...

Three parallel cohort studies of asbestos factory workers were undertaken to investigate the effects of mineral fibre type and industrial process on malignant mesothelioma, respiratory cancer, and asbestosis. This report describes the mortality of a cohort of 2543 men, defined as all those employed for at least a month from 1938 to 1958 in a textile plant in South Carolina in which chrysotile w...

A microencapsulated flame retardant was used in order to produce a flame retardant nonwoven substrate. Melamine-formaldehyde polymer-shell microcapsules, containing Afflamit® PLF 280 (resorcinol bis(diphenyl phosphate)) as the core substance, were coated by an outer thermoplastic wall (polystyrene (PS) or poly(methyl methacrylate)), before being applied to a core/sheet-type bi-component PET/co-...

In recent years, there has been an upsurge of interest in enzyme treatment of textile fibres. Enzymes are globular proteins whose catalytic function is due to their three dimensional structure. For this reason, stability strategies make use of compounds that avoid dismantling or distorting protein 3D structures. This study is concerned with the use of microencapsulation techniques to optimize e...

Abstract When producing a Textile Reinforced Concrete structure or element, joining separate textile layers might be necessity, driven for example by the limited dimensions of commercially available fabrics. A possible way such joints is overlapping different sheets. Overlapped joints, however, need to cast with particular attention since they represents weak elements structure, leading prematu...

Textiles provide an ideal structure for embedding sensors for medical devices. Skin temperature measurement is one area in which a sensor textile could be particularly beneficial; pathological skin is normally very sensitive, making the comfort of anything placed on that skin paramount. Skin temperature is an important parameter to measure for a number of medical applications, including for the...