exposing the ear to an intense noise will probably cause to hearing loss. this loss may be temporary threshold shift (tts), permanent threshold shift (pts), or a combination of the two. the average audiograms for the 157 textile workers, exposed to an average 100 db (a) overall noise level, in 5 age groups indicated that the losses were most prominent for frequencies of 3 to 6 kc/s showing a pe...

In this paper, the washability of wearable textronic (textile-electronic) devices has been studied. Two different approaches aiming at designing, producing, and testing robust washable and reliable smart textile systems are presented. The common point of the two approaches is the use of flexible conductive PCB in order to interface the miniaturized rigid (traditional) electronic devices to cond...

Project preludial activities included the field visits to thirty three textile industries selected randomly from Jodhpur district and Pali district. A total of 1240 workers have been examined out of which 845 were textile workers. Data on 395 comparative group workers of same age groups and smoking habits who were not being involved in the textile work have also been collected from eight coloni...

Textile printing systems are needed that will meet the requirements of time-driven, demand activated manufacturing. Electrophotography and ink-jet printing are technologies that have the potential of meeting these requirements. Textile-specific, electrophotographic and ink-jet printing toners/inks must be developed if these technologies are to gain acceptance in the textile industry. The develo...

The large surface area and ability to retain moisture of textile structures enable microorganisms' growth, which causes a range of undesirable effects, not only on the textile itself, but also on the user. Due to the public health awareness of the pathogenic effects on personal hygiene and associated health risks, over the last few years, intensive research has been promoted in order to minimiz...

The designs that have been stored in early days are often used as a reference when textile designs are created. T o effectively use these resources, a wellequipped design database must be constructed and a useful searching method must be studied. As for a design searching method, searching methods that deal with human subjective information are requested. A technique for these searching methods...

To maintain typical textile properties, smart designs of light emitting devices are printed directly onto textile substrates. A first approach shows improved designs for alternating current powder electroluminescence (ACPEL) devices. A configuration with the following build-up, starting from the textile substrate, was applied using the screen printing technique: silver (10 µm)/barium titanate (...

the industrial effluents of three textile plants in the south of tehran were studied. in each plant all related factors such as raw material consumption, production processes and water use at different points were examined. these plants discharge their effluents into the environment without any treatment. the common characteristics of these wastes are quantity and quality variability, organic p...