The implementation and evaluation of a high fidelity material model for dry fabrics is the main objective of this paper. Inflatable Aerodynamic Decelerators (IADs) and other airinflated structures quite often utilize woven fabrics due to their lightweight and high loading carrying capabilities. Design optimization of these inflated structures relies on a detailed understanding of the woven fabr...

this paper is an invitation to accept and to apply the senses in the field of ethnographic research of art. i tried to embed the aesthetic dimension of handmade fabrics woven by lümə-dərə community– one of tərəkəmə clans in northwest iran- in their sensual world and make an approach toward understanding it. therefore, i have made a bridge between anthropology of aesthetics and the anthropology ...

In this paper, stainless steel core yarn was selected as a conductive yarn to produce conductive fabrics. The electromagnetic shielding effectiveness of twill and some diced woven fabrics with different metal densities were measured by free space measurement technique at horizontal polarization of the antenna. It was found that woven fabric samples shielded well in high frequency band, namely i...

Fabrics are typical porous material and can be treated as mixtures of fibers and air. There is no clearly defined boundary and is different from a classical continuum for fabrics. It is complex to proceed with the theoretical analysis of fabric behavior. There are two main reasons (Hearle et al., 1969) for developing the geometrical structures of fabrics. One is to be able to calculate the resi...

Textiles for apparels are constructed by innovative methods in construction by weaving or knitting to get the end product requirements of better strength, extension, elasticity, hand and resistance to abrasion. Woven and knitted fabrics are widely used and known for their respective properties of firm shape and elastic properties. Their drawback of rigidity and deformation of shape are overcome...

The research for objectifying the handle of textile fabrics is a very important factor in the textile and garment manufacturing and retailing industries. Handle is influenced by mechanical properties of textile fabrics and the surface roughness. The KES-F system is standard objectified method among different measurement methods. But the measurement of surface roughness applied the KES-F which i...

A general approach to the mechanical behaviour of woven fabrics at the scale of individual fibers is proposed in this paper. In order to simulate the behaviour of samples of woven fabrics, all fibers constituting these samples are taken into account in the model, and particular attention is focused on the detection and modeling of contact-friction interactions occuring within the collection of ...

1359-835X/$ see front matter 2009 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.compositesa.2009.11.011 * Corresponding author. Present Address: Departm trial Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, O 8216; fax: +1 416 978 7753. E-mail address: [email protected] (A. Nabov The lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) is used to investigate the dual-scale problem of fluid flow through three-dimensional multifila...