We investigated the actual factor determining the softening effect of a fabric softener. The adsorption area of the softener on model cotton cloths and yarns was identified using bromophenol blue. There was almost no softener at the cross-points of the yarns in the cloth samples or in the inner part of the yarns. The softening performance was better when there was less softener at the cross-poi...

More information about the best ways to help veterans with spinal cord injury return to work is needed. Supported employment is a type of vocational rehabilitation that helps persons with disabilities get paying jobs in the community. This type of vocational rehabilitation has not been widely used and has never been tested among persons with spinal cord injury. This article describes a research...

Yarns produced by Japanese Open-end BD-200 spinning machines give these major advantages: (1) They are somewhat stronger than yarns spun by Czecho BD-200's. (2) They are almost as strong as yarns spun by ring spinning machines. This strength is obtainable without raising the cost of raw cotton if the right fore-spinning processes and spinning conditions are used. (3) They have maximum strength ...

Textile construction is well known for having a significant effect on the ballistic response of fabrics. One possible mechanism for this effect is the change in yarn-yarn interaction with changes in weave geometry. During an impact event, strain waves propagate through both fill and warp yarns. Energy transfer from warp to fill yarns and fill to warp yarns is a phenomenon that has been largely ...

Unique macrostructures known as spun carbon-nanotube fibers (CNT yarns) can be manufactured from vertically aligned forests of multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs). These yarns behave as semiconductors with room-temperature conductivities of about 5 x 10(2) S cm(-1). Their potential use as, for example, microelectrodes in medical implants, wires in microelectronics, or lightweight conductors i...

Inter-organizational design processes are inefficiently supported by management tools w.r.t. to their dynamic nature and inherent complexity. In this paper, we present an innovative framework for the definition, analysis, improvement, and management of such design processes. Key features are to bridge the gap between modeling and execution of inter-organizational design processes and the seamle...

Correspondence to: Mohammad Amani Tehran email: [email protected] ABSTRACT In this study, color coordinates variation of spundyed polyester filament yarns subjected to the false twist texturing process was investigated. Furthermore, the effect of different processing parameters including D/Y ratio, twist, heater temperature, texturing speed, overfeed, the draw ratio and intermingling process on t...

Staple yarns form the bulk of the manufacturing activity of the U.S. textile industry. Staple fiber yams are utilized in the making of apparel, upholstery and industrial fabrics. Yarns may be made from natural staple fibers or from a variety of synthetic fibers or from the blends of different fibers. As a matter of fact, blends constitute a bulk of the staple yarns manufactured in the U.S. Alth...