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 ...

Electrotextiles denote the class of fabric structures that integrate electronic elements with textiles. One of the outstanding features of electrotextiles is the ability to personalize. Each system can be tailored by choosing the type of fibers that are included in the design. Another outstanding feature is that electronics can be distributed and made invisible in electrotextiles. It makes the ...

Fuel cells are electrochemical devices which convert chemical energy of a reacting fuel directly into electricity with high efficiency and no pollution. Proton Exchange/ Polymer Electrolyte Membrane (PEM) fuel cells are likely to be among one of the most promising energy sources for transportation, heating and power generation. Some of the key materials used in PEM fuel cells are catalysts, mem...

The national planners have put infrastructures development on priority. This has resulted in transport planning widening of National Highway and new roads in country. Thus work of Retaining Earth (RE) structures/ slopes will be going to design in very large numbers over different areas. The availability of backfill material compatible with geosynthetics reinforcements and economy in both has be...

INTRODUCTION Today, development of materials technology using biomass is expected for creation of a sustainable society. Especially, the composite consisting of plant-based natural fibers and biodegradable resin, so-called the fully-green composites, is much expected for practical use. So far, we made textile green composites using biodegradable resin and plain woven ramie fabric and explored t...

A promising energy source for many current and future applications is a ribbon-like device that could simultaneously harvest and store energy. Due to the high flexibility and weavable property, a fabric/matrix made using these ribbons could be highly beneficial for powering wearable electronics. Unlike the approach of using two separate devices, here we report a ribbon that integrates a solar c...

Electrode materials are key components for fiber solar cells, and when combined with active layers (for light absorption and charge generation) in appropriate ways, they enable design and fabrication of efficient and innovative device structures. Here, we apply carbon nanotube yarns as counter electrodes in combination with CdSe nanowire-grafted primary electrodes (Ti wire) for making fiber and...

In this paper, Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) are used to model the effect of atmospheric air-plasma treatment on fabric surfaces with various structures. In order to reduce the complexity of the models and increase the knowledge and comprehension of the underlying process, a fuzzy sensitivity variation criterion is used to select the most relevant parameters which are taken as inputs of the...