The study of the distribution of the crystallographic orientations (the fabric) along ice cores supplies information on the past and current ice flows of ice-sheets. Beside the usually observed formation of a vertical single maximum fabric, the EPICA Dome Con-cordia ice core (EDC) shows an abrupt and unexpected strenghtening of its fabric dur-5 ing termination II around 1750 m depth. Such stren...

A model is proposed to analyse the variation in the permeability of Non– Crimp Fabrics, originating from variations in the internal structure of the material. A geometrical description of the fabric based on the distortion induced by the stitch threads piercing through the fabric is employed. The distortions form channels which are mutually connected. It is assumed that these channels dominate ...

Solar photovoltaic (PV) arrays are providing an increasing fraction of global electrical demand, with an accelerating rate of new installations. Most of these employ conventional glass-fronted panels, but this type of PV array does not satisfy applications that require a light-weight, flexible PV generator. An option discussed in this article is to consider textiles for such solar cell substrat...

Directional water transport fabrics can proactively transfer moisture from the body. They show great potential in making sportswear and summer clothing. While moisture transfer has been previously reported, heat transfer in directional water transport fabrics has been little reported in research literature. In this study, a directional water transport fabric was prepared using an electrosprayin...

A robust, self-healing superhydrophobic poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) fabric was fabricated by a convenient solution-dipping method using an easily available material system consisting of polydimethylsiloxane and octadecylamine (ODA). The surface roughness was formed by self-roughening of ODA coating on PET fibers without any lithography steps or adding any nanomaterials. The fabric coatin...

In this paper, stainless steel core yarn was selected as a conductive yarn to produce conductive fabrics. The electromagnetic shielding effectiveness of twill and some diced woven fabrics with different metal densities were measured by free space measurement technique at horizontal polarization of the antenna. It was found that woven fabric samples shielded well in high frequency band, namely i...

In this paper we present several practical methods for formally verifying an Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) network switching fabric using the Verification Interacting with Synthesis (VIS) tool. We produced Verilog RTL behavioral and netlist structural descriptions of the switch fabric at different levels of hierarchy and established several abstracted models of the fabric. Using various tech...

ParaStation is a communications fabric for connecting oo-the-shelf workstations into a supercomputer. The fabric employs technology used in massively parallel machines and scales up to 4096 nodes. The message passing software preserves the low latency of the fabric by taking the operating system out of the communication path, while still providing full protection. The rst implementation of Para...

We consider how Fibre Channel switches can be cascaded to form a Fibre Channel fabric. We begin with an analytical model of topology performance that provides a theoretical upper bound on fabric per$ormance and a method for the practical evaluation of fabric topologies. We then consider the prevention of buffer-cycle deadlock in Fibre Channel networks. We show that though some topologies implic...

Residential block construction of big cities in China began in the 1950s, and four models had far-reaching influence on modern residential block in its development process, including unit compound and residential district in 1950s to 1980s, and gated community and open community in 1990s to now. Based on analysis of the four models’ fabric, the article takes residential blocks in Hangzhou west ...