A comfortable health monitoring system named WEALTHY is presented. The system is based on a wearable interface implemented by integrating fabric sensors, advanced signal processing techniques and modern telecommunication systems, on a textile platform. Conducting and piezoresistive materials in form of fibre and yarn are integrated in a garment and used as sensors, connectors and electrode elem...

Quality inspection of textile products is an important problem for fabric manufacturers. Currently, the quality control of a fabric of width 1.6-2.0m. which moves at a speed of 8-20 m/min is mostly done by human operators. Texture analysis plays an important role in automatic visual inspection of surfaces. There has been a limited number of applications of texture processing techniques to autom...

Although fabrics are widely used as shading devices, reliable simulation models are rather rare and therefore the choice of a fabric with appropriate material characteristics is difficult. This paper presents a simulation model, which can be applied to most of the common available fabric shading materials. Furthermore a comprehensive simulation study has been conducted in order to derive simple...

This paper describes studies done at Gemtex Laboratory on the modeling and simulation of woven fabric. The main difficulty in this area is to take into account the hysteresis phenomena that occurs in fabric’s traction, shearing and bending behavior. Part I of this paper presents a friction based approach to obtain a time-free model for this nonlinear phenomena. Part II presents the application ...

Saving of energy and time in drying of laundry directly depends upon the residual water content of the fabric at the end of the spinning cycle. If the amount of water left in the fabric is significantly reduced then the time and energy required to dry the fabric is less. Both these factors benefit the consumer and the national energy consumption. For the USA alone, the 30 % reduction in the res...

An appearance defect online inspection system of mesh fabric has been developed based on machine vision. The mean filter method is adopted to eliminate noise. An adaptive threshold method based on brightness is presented to eliminate the effects of uneven illumination and separate the foreground and background. By analyzing the texture characteristics and defect features of mesh fabric, the mes...

This white paper explores issues in extending the Lightfleet direct-broadcast interconnect for addressing large numbers of endpoints. In particular, connectivity issues in cloud computing, server farms, supercomputing, storage farms, and telecommunication installations are discussed. The several approaches presently in use are compared and contrasted to similar methods enabled by the Lightfleet...

In the present study, an attempt has been made to impart antimicrobial finishing on cotton woven fabric using nano silver solution, at various concentrations: 5 gpl, 10 gpl, 15 gpl, 20 gpl, and 25 gpl in the presence of PVOH (5 gpl, 7.5 gpl and 10 gpl) and an eco-friendly cross linking agent, namely 100gpl glyoxal/65 gpl Appretan N 92111 (binder) applied by the pad-dry-cure technique. Curing co...

OBJECTIVE Avoiding potentially irritating contact is a key point in vulvar lichen simplex chronicus (VLSC) management. This study aims to assess the use of nonirritating silk fabric underwear (Dermasilk) as an adjuvant tool in the treatment of VLSC. METHODS Twenty women with VLSC were enrolled in a 1-week open-label active treatment phase with topical 0.1% mometasone furoate (MMF) ointment. P...