BACKGROUND Structural constitutive models of vascular wall integrate information on composition and structural arrangements of tissue. In blood vessels, collagen fibres are arranged in coiled and wavy bundles and the individual collagen fibres have a deviation from their mean orientation. A complete structural constitutive model for vascular wall should incorporate both waviness and orientation...

Although fabrication technologies of Microstructured Optical Fibres (MOFs) fibres have matured at an impressive rate over the past ten years, these fibres are widely perceived as “challenging” and some key issues are still outstanding in order to improve their manufacturability. One such issue revolves around methods to improve structural control during the fibre draw. Structural control is of ...

Modern society demands more sustainable and economical construction elements. One of the available options for manufacturing this type element is valorisation end-of-life waste, such as, example, recycling polymers used in industry. The these wastes reduces costs avoids pollution generated by their landfill disposal. With aim helping to obtain material, work describes a methodology polyethylene...

Most of everyday clothing consists of textile fibres woven together to produce a fabric. Their primary purpose is structural and aesthetic. Fibres can have added functionality by the integration of computing power into the material that forms them. The purpose of the ‘fibre computing’ concept is to integrate this new dimension of functionality into fibres, thus turning everyday clothing objects...

Polymers reinforced with high performance fibres are successfully replacing metal alloys in lightweight aircraft structures. A critical factor in structural design is the resistance of a structure to progressive damage which develops during its service time. The brittle nature of matrix cracking is the main source of composite failure initiating ply delamination and fibre to matrix debonding. B...

• Gyration under pressure was used to spin polyacrylonitrile-cellulose acetate blend fibres. • Self-generating porous structures were obtained by controlling working pressure. • Artificial porous fibrous structures were made by leaching and etching. • Structural evolution inpolyacrylonitrilecellulose acetate blend fibres is ex-

β-Sheet crystals play an important role in determining the stiffness, strength, and optical properties of silk and in the exhibition of silk-type-specific functions. It is important to elucidate the structural changes that occur during the stretching of silk fibres to understand the functions of different types of fibres. Herein, we elucidate the initial crystallisation behaviour of silk molecu...