The aim of this chapter is to review different approaches that have been proposed to compute fabric tensors with emphasis on trabecular bone research. Fabric tensors aim at modeling through tensors both anisotropy and orientation of a material with respect to another one. Fabric tensors are widely used in fields such as trabecular bone research, mechanics of materials and geology. These tensors...

Electronic textile (e-textile) allows for high-end wearable electronic devices that provide easy access for carrying, handling and using. However, the related technology does not seem to be mature because the woven fabric hampers not only the device fabrication process directly on the complex surface but also the transfer printing of ultrathin planar electronic devices. Here we report an indire...

Using an Al-foil of thickness ≈ 18 μ m as a substrate and electrode, a piezoelectric nanogenerator (NG) that is super-fl exible in responding to the wavy motion of a very light wind is fabricated using ZnO nanowire arrays. The NG is used to harvest the energy from a waving fl ag, demonstrating its high fl exibility and excellent conformability to be integrated into fabric. The NG is applied to ...

Based on the micro-mechanical model recently developed by Nemat-Nasser S. (J. Mech. Phys. Solids 48 (2000) 1541), a three-dimensional continuum mechanics model is presented for the deformation of granular materials which carry the applied load through frictional contacts. The model incorporates the anisotropy (or fabric) which develops as a frictional granular mass is deformed in shear, and inc...

-The area of the digital image processing is getting more attention in the hope that it will increase the accuracy of any scientific measurements. One of many digital image processing applications is texture analysis. Fabric or cloth is a flexible artificial material that is made by a network of natural or artificial fibers. Fabric fault inspection is an important process in the textile industr...

SUMMARY Recent advances in seismic anisotropy studies that jointly use reflections and shear wave splitting have proven to place tight constraints on the plausible anisotropic deformation scenarios D″ region. We apply this novel methodology a large area of region beneath South Atlantic, proximity within African low velocity province (LLSVP). This mantle is characterized by transition from fast ...

We have dated the South Delhi orogeny, Aravalli-Delhi Mobile Belt (ADMB), NW India, using tectonic fabric, geochemistry, and zircon-monazite geochronology as proxies. The Terrane (SDT), a passive margin domain in ADMB, consists of multiply deformed (D 1 –D 4 ) greenschist facies rocks several granite plutons. D deformation is characterized by pervasive isoclinal recumbent F fold axial planar te...

This research project combines computer-aided-engineering methods with practical control strategies to develop precise fabric handling capabilities. The primary goal is to develop mechatronic design concepts for assembly processes such as: folding, joining, placing, and locating that take into account variability in fabric material properties such as weight and stiffness. Advanced three-dimensi...

In order to simulate the deformation of different fabrics, A method was proposed to realize textile draping simulation of complex cloth materials. A BP neural network was constructed to acquire the nonlinear relationship between fabric mechanical parameters and control parameters of the 3D textile simulation system. Simulation experiment had been carried out on fifteen kinds of familiar fabrics...