The effect of material type, yarn count, pick density, type of mordant and layers of fabrics on the electromagnetic shielding properties of textile materials has been studied. The shielding effectiveness of the fabric is measured by estimating the insertion loss incurred to the signal when the sample is placed in the path of the signal at the frequency range 100 MHz-3 GHz inside the coaxial tra...

One-dimensional flexible supercapacitor yarns are of considerable interest for future wearable electronics. The bottleneck in this field is how to develop devices of high energy and power density, by using economically viable materials and scalable fabrication technologies. Here we report a hierarchical graphene-metallic textile composite electrode concept to address this challenge. The hierarc...

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...

The mode I interlaminar fracture toughness of stitched and unstitched composite laminates of continuous UD flax fiber and epoxy matrix was experimentally and numerically investigated. A twistless flax fiber yarn was used for stitching purpose. The mode I interlaminar energy release rate of the unstitched and stitched laminates was experimentally determined through Double Cantilever Beam (DCB) t...

The problem of yarn breakage during spinning is quite serious, but it is difficult to predict the number of yarn breakages, because the tension and strength of the yarn always vary. The author has used simple mathematical models of the variation of the tension and the strength of the yarn, and calculated the probability of yarn breakages. The result has shown that the variation of the yarn stre...

The paper focuses on the importance of using specific values (values where the axial property is normalised by dividing by density) for properties of CNT yarn-like fibres to avoid the huge uncertainties introduced by the state of lateral compression of the yarn, a difficulty not only associated with the measurement of cross sectional area, but exacerbated by the influence of winding forces and ...

Yarn hairiness is one of the key parameters influencing the quality of yarn.It is observed that yarn quality has been deduced based on yarn length and diameter only. But these parameters do not provide much information about yarn quality. Thus it is proposed to derive more yarn quality parameters like yarn hairiness, uniformity of yarn and its thickness. In textile industry, image processing is...

The evaluation method of yarn surface quality currently in use is mainly based on manual inspection. In order to resolve the inherent limitations of the human visual inspection, an intelligent evaluation system has been developed for the objective and automatic evaluation of yarn surface quality with computer vision and artificial intelligence. In this system, all yarn surface features are full...

Fiber-reinforced composite materials have many advantages in various engineering applications when compared to traditional such as glass, metals, ceramics and unreinforced plastics. Recently, textile-reinforced composites are increasingly used industries including aerospace, construction automotive. This study aims investigate the geometric characteristics of three-dimensional (3D) woven prefor...

Efficient physically accurate modeling and rendering of woven cloth at a yarn level is an inherently complicated task due to the underlying geometrical and optical complexity. In this paper, a novel and general approach to physically accurate cloth rendering is presented. By using a statistical volumetric model approximating the distribution of yarn fibers, a prohibitively costly explicit geome...