Knitted textiles have been used in medical applications due to their high flexibility and low tendency to fray. Their mechanics has, however, received limited attention compared to woven fabrics used as technical textiles e.g. in aerospace and as composite reinforcements. A constitutive model for soft tissue using a strain energy function was extended, by including shear and increasing the numb...

The automated defect detection of jacquard fabrics is intuitively appealing to the textile industry but as yet there has been little in-depth research in this field. In this paper, we introduce a defect detection method for use on jacquard fabrics that is based on multiple color-channel analysis. According to the number of color yarns employed, a number of color channels can be extracted from a...

Directional water transport fabrics can proactively transfer moisture from the body. They show great potential in making sportswear and summer clothing. While moisture transfer has been previously reported, heat transfer in directional water transport fabrics has been little reported in research literature. In this study, a directional water transport fabric was prepared using an electrosprayin...

Application-level tolerance to approximations is commonly exploited in approximate computing research today. This paper focuses on how this can be leveraged towards tolerance to nonidealities in circuit/device fabrics (variations, defects). Errors due to the computation fabrics can arise either due to reduction of design margins, e.g., to push the limits of energy efficiency and throughput in C...

In the present study, the inherent characteristic of carbon nanotubes to absorb/attenuate the energy of electromagnetic waves has been exploited. The results indicate that the incorporation of CNTs in the polyurethane matrix has significant effect on the microwave interaction properties. Fabrics are developed through coating process using formulations based on different concentrations of multi ...

Critical authors of gentrification point to its deleterious impacts on displaced residents. Research on the nature or actual forms of impacts has not advanced much, however. This paper attempts to specify impacts on low-income racial/ethnic groups (Latinos in particular) in five Chicago neighbourhoods, with a particular focus on neighbourhood-based fabrics of support and advancement. Limited in...

Abstract Our world is undergoing an enormous digital transformation. Nearly no area of our social, informational, political, economic, cultural, and biological spheres are left unchanged. What can philosophy contribute as we try to understand think through these changes? How does digitization challenge past ideas who where headed? Where it leave ethical aspirations cherished ideals democracy, e...

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Abstract Imageability is the quality of a place that makes it distinct, recognizable, and memorable. It defines character identity for cities. However, fast expansion urban development affects image city its fabric toward mega scale transforms cities local cultural life as loosing most their historic fabrics. These make loose there images gradually. Hence, aim this paper to explore main physica...