Blending Nomex® with cotton improves its affordability and serviceability. Because cotton is a highly flammable fiber, Nomex®/cotton blend fabrics containing more than 20% cotton require flame-retardant treatment. In this research, combination of a hydroxyl functional organophosphorus oligmer (HFPO) and 1,2,3,4-butanetetracarboxylic acid (BTCA) was used for flame retardant finishing of the 65/3...

This paper focuses on identifying defects in a handloom silk fabric using image analysis techniques such as first order statistical features. Any disparity in the knitting process that leads to an unpleasant appearance or dissatisfaction of the customer is termed as a defect in the fabric. Even today, the defect detection in a silk fabric is done using skilled manual labour. An automated defect...

This paper proposes a polygonal approximation of a fabric with curved edges based on Genetic Algorithms. The main task is to handle the fabric in the sewing process with the exclusive use of robots without human intervention. This is achieved using a visual servoied manipulator controller to guide the fabric along the sewing line. The task of the end-effector is to manipulate a randomly located...

This work investigated the efficiency of a tetraacetylethylenediamine/ hydrogen peroxide/triethanolamine (TAED/H2O2/TEA) system for lowtemperature bleaching of cotton fabric, with and without ultrasonic assistance. The low-temperature bleaching results were compared to those obtained from a conventional H2O2 bleaching system. The application of TAED/H2O2/TEA without ultrasonic assistance to gre...

The design and development of textile-based strain sensors has been a focus of research and many investigators have studied this subject. This paper presents a new textile-based strain sensor design and shows the effect of base fabric parameters on its sensing properties. Sensing fabric could be used to measure articulations of the human body in the real environment. The strain sensing fabric w...

–In this study cotton fabric was pretreated with nano TiO2 (<100nm) particles by Pad-Dry-Cure technique. The deposition of nano particles on the fabric was observed by SEM and elementally analyzed by oxford –Inca software using SEM. The treated fabric was analyzed for the change in their physical, biological and functional properties compared to the untreated cotton fabric. Very encouraging res...

Fiber Channel fabric, cascading, fabric topology, performance analysis, deadlock avoidance, fairness, deadlock-free routing, balanced routing, irregular topologies The Fiber Channel standard provides a mechanism for interconnecting heterogeneous systems containing peripheral devices and computer systems through optical fiber media. In this paper, we consider how FC switches can be cascaded to f...

Herein, we demonstrate that a flexible, air-permeable, thermoelectric (TE) power generator can be prepared by applying a TE polymer (e.g. poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene):poly(4-styrenesulfonate)) coated commercial fabric and subsequently by linking the coated strips with a conductive connection (e.g. using fine metal wires). The poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene):poly(4-styrenesulfonate) coated ...

It has long been recognised that heat transfer through clothing is a main constraint to the comfort properties of clothing. The present work relates to the development of a mathematical model for the prediction of heat transmission through multilayer clothing with air in between two successive layers of fabric in a multilayered clothing assembly. A mathematical model was developed using general...