Sir David Cox’s statistical career and his lifelong interest in the theory and application of stochastic processes began with problems in the wool industry. The problem of drafting a strand of wool yarn to near uniform width is not an auspicious starting point, but an impressive array of temporal and spectral methods from stationary time series were brought to bear on the problem in Cox (1949)....

Studies of carbon nanotube (CNT) based composites have been unable to translate the extraordinary load-bearing capabilities of individual CNTs to macroscale composites such as yarns. A key challenge lies in the lack of understanding of how properties of filaments and interfaces across yarn hierarchical levels govern the properties of macroscale yarns. To provide insight required to enable the d...

Fibre blend should be composed regarding the requirements and allowable price of the textile end product. Using the appropriate raw material and optimised fibre blends we can influence the mechanical properties and regularity of a yarn as well as significantly reduce the number of yarn faults. The contribution presents a study of the influence of quality characteristics of cotton fibres and con...

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 ...

Various applications of multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNT) have been developed. One of these applications is an efficient sheet heating element that is woven from MWCNT-coated yarn. In this research, we assessed the exposure to MWCNT and/or the probability of particle release from broken MWCNT-coated yarn during the weaving process. This was accomplished using particle concentrations, microsc...

Modeling the 3D geometric configuration of yarn is the base of building the 3D fabric structure. The surfaces of the yarns are modeled by many facets. To improve the efficiency of modeling, 3D yarn is usually designed by Bezier curve, spline curve or B-spline curve on the principle of Computer Graphics. The paper reviews different 3D modeling methods for single yarn from the view of cross-secti...

Most practical textile models are based on a two scale approach: a one-dimensional fiber model and a fabric model, see [1]. No meso-level is used in between, i.e. the yarn scale is neglected in this setup. For dense textile substrates this seems appropriate as the yarns connect everywhere, but for loose fabrics or scrims this approach cannot be kept. Specifically when one is interested in track...

Introduction We have previously reported downsizing ancient twistbased spinning technology for making continuous, densified nanotube yarns from multi-walled carbon nanotube (MWNT) forests [1]. Such nanotube yarns provide unique properties and property combinations. Despite this important progress, the relationship between nanotube yarn properties and component carbon nanotube properties is not ...

We investigated the actual factor determining the softening effect of a fabric softener. The adsorption area of the softener on model cotton cloths and yarns was identified using bromophenol blue. There was almost no softener at the cross-points of the yarns in the cloth samples or in the inner part of the yarns. The softening performance was better when there was less softener at the cross-poi...

Textile fabrics are highly anisotropic, so that their mechanical properties including strengths are a function of direction. An extreme case is when a woven fabric sample is cut in such a way where the bias angle and hence the tension loading direction is around 45° relative to the principal directions. Then, once loaded, no yarn in the sample is held at both ends, so the yarns have to build up...