The present paper reports a detailed study on heat and moisture vapour transmission characteristics of different types of multilayered fabric ensembles. Two sets of multilayered fabrics have been prepared. In first set, two types of carded web produced from acrylic and polyester fibres with five different areal densities in each fibre type have been used as middle layer. In second set, differen...

A novel method of preparation of easily stripped-off temporary wound dressing material is described. A tri-layer membrane system for artificial skin is prepared in this study. In this process, the N-isopropyl acrylamide monomer is successfully grafted on the non-woven fabric by co-polymerization. It is initiated by plasma to activate the surface of the non-woven cloth. N-isopropyl acrylamide is...

This paper introduces a very simple way to evaluate low stress shearing properties of woven fabrics with the advantages of simplicity and easy accessibility. A 200-gram load is applied on small portion of the sample instead of applying the load overall width of the fabric. As a result, buckling of the fabric will happen and the loading-unloading curve will show the behavior of the fabric during...

The aim of this paper is to study the effect of silane treatment on woven banana fabric based unsaturated polyester resin composites. The fabric was treated with vinyl triethoxysilane. Woven banana fabric (WBF) reinforced unsaturated polyester resin (UPR) composites were fabricated by hand lay-up technique. The fabric content in the composite was kept constant to 35 %. The variation in the mech...

This work presents a computational material model of flexible woven fabric for finite element impact analysis and simulation. The model is implemented in the nonlinear dynamic explicit finite element code LSDYNA. The material model derivation utilizes the micro-mechanical approach and the homogenization technique usually used in composite material models. The model accounts for reorientation of...

Fabrics are pliable, breathable, lightweight, ambient stable, and have unmatched haptic perception. Here, a vapor deposition method is used to transform off-the-shelf plain-woven fabrics, such as linen, silk, and bast fiber fabrics, into metal-free conducting electrodes. These fabric electrodes are resistant to wear, stable after laundering and ironing, and can be bodymounted with little detrim...

The objective of fabric inspection is to ascertain whether the fabric received is of expected Quality standard or not. The main objective is detection of fabric defects as early as possible so that time and money are not wasted in the manufacturing, process. The ultimate goal of any quality control activity in clothing' industry is to satisfy the customers. Most defects in cloth occur while it ...

Automatic inspection of woven textile fabric is discussed. Two signiicant problems are addressed: (a) texture feature extraction; Fourier transform features are found to be well matched to the spatially periodic nature of the woven pattern; moreover , they are shift invariant; (b) detector design; maximum likelihood type detectors are inappropriate since we cannot hope to enumerate all defect c...