Heat and mass transfer in a permeable fabric system used for Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) was investigated using hot air jet impingement conditions to mimic the jet exhaust of Short Take-Off and Vertical Landing (STOVL) aircraft. The STOVL aircraft uses a thrust-vectoring nozzle of the jet engine and a lift fan in order to vertically land and take off a short runaway. The jet engine exha...

The influence of exposure evaluation methodology in the assessment seismic vulnerability residential building stock historic center Alcamo, a town 45,000 inhabitants Western Sicily (Italy), hit by an earthquake 1968, is evaluated this study. A comparison estimates on basis description according to two different approaches performed. first, typical procedures at territorial scale, refers through...

This paper focuses on how to solve the demand of quickly explore more urban space design and layout in terms conservation reuse historical blocks under computer-aided technology. Referring inductive patterns, author establishes an grammar districts based shape pattern language. It forms a complete generative method involving morphological analysis, rule-making, scheme generation. Furthermore, t...

Our cultural heritage, as preserved in libraries, archives and museums, is made up of documents written many centuries ago. Largescale digitization initiatives make these documents available to nonexpert users through digital libraries and vertical search engines. For a user, querying a historic document collection may be a disappointing experience: queries involving modern words may not be ver...

I N T R O D U C T I O N The overall quality of a fabric is dependent on a number of factors, including tensile strength, shrinkage, abrasion resistance, and fabric construction. Also among these is the fabric’s tendency to wrinkle after home laundering – referred to as smoothness. The protocol for ascertaining smoothness grade of a fabric is outlined in the American Association of Textile Chemi...

Reconfigurable computing devices have achieved substantial performance improvements over conventional processors on some computational kernels. These benefits derive from hardware customization which avoids the mismatch between the basic requirements of the algorithms and the architectures of the processors. A reconfigurable fabric alone is not sufficient for general-purpose computing since it ...

The present paper reports a detailed study on heat and moisture vapour transmission characteristics of different types of multilayered fabric ensembles. Two sets of multilayered fabrics have been prepared. In first set, two types of carded web produced from acrylic and polyester fibres with five different areal densities in each fibre type have been used as middle layer. In second set, differen...

The growth of urban populations in recent decades requires physical elements such as residential, commercial and cultural spaces and the development of infrastructure such as streets and highways, which will open a new horizon to the historic texture of cities and how to preserve and restore them. The development of new urban textures along with the lack of attention to the historic texture and...

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Underlying fabrics can change the appearance, function and quality of the garment, and also add so much longevity of the garment. Nowadays, with the increasing use of various types of fabrics in the garment industry, their resistance to bagging is of great importance with the aim of determining the effectiveness of textiles under various forces. The current paper investigated the effect of unde...