Woven Textile Structure

Theory and Applications

B K Behera, P K Hari

• Publisher: Woodhead Publishing
• Year: 2010
• ISBN:
  9781845697815
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• Subtopic: Materials Science
• Index: Technology & Engineering

Understanding and predicting the structure and properties of woven textiles is important for achieving specific performance characteristics in various woven applications. Woven textiles are used in a range of products such as apparel, technical and industrial textiles. Woven textile structure: Theory and applications provides comprehensive coverage of the structure, behaviour, modeling and design of woven fabrics and their relevance to the textile industry.The first group of chapters review the fundamental principles of woven fabric structures. Part two discusses the mechanics of woven fabrics, topics include shrinkage in woven fabrics, yarn behaviour in woven fabrics and bending behaviour of woven fabrics. Part three presents a selection of chapters on design engineering of woven fabrics, themes such as textile product design methods and modelling for woven fabric design are covered. A final group of chapters is dedicated to addressing practical applications of woven fabrics.Woven textile structure: Theory and applications is essential reading for designers, engineers and technicians involved in the design, manufacture and use of woven textiles and garments. It will also bebeneficial to academics and students.

• Provides comprehensive coverage of the fundamentals of woven fabric structure including geometrical modeling
• Examines mechanisms of woven fabric structure featuring shrinkage, buckling, bending and creasing behaviour of textiles
• Illustrates mathematical modeling and building predictive models for textile product design incorporating validation and testing

Part I

Fundamentals of woven fabric structure

1

The basics of woven fabric structure

Abstract:

Different types of fabric formation and typical weaves are described. The mathematical representation of weave is explained for some weaves. Mathematical modeling is used to compare warp and weft properties in fabrics. The two useful parameters, average float and weave value, are explained and calculated for some weaves.

Key words

woven fabrics

modeling

warp properties

weft properties

average float

weave value

1.1 Introduction: woven fabric formation

There are many ways of making fabrics from textile fibers [1]. The most common and most complex category comprises fabrics made from interlaced yarns. These are the traditional methods of manufacturing textiles. The great scope lies in choosing fibers with particular properties, arranging them in the yarn in several ways and organizing in multiple ways interlaced yarn within the fabric. This gives the textile designer great freedom and variation for controlling and modifying the fabric. The most common form of interlacing is weaving, where two sets of threads cross and interweave with one another. The yarns are held in place by the inter-yarn friction. Another form of interlacing where the thread in one set interlocks with the loops of neighboring thread by looping is called knitting. The interloping of yarns results in positive binding. Knitted fabrics are widely used in apparel, home furnishing and technical textiles. Lace, crochet and different types of net are other forms of interlaced yarn structures. Braiding is another way of thread interlacing for fabric formation. Braided fabric is formed by diagonal interlacing of yarns. Braided structures are mainly used for industrial composite materials.

Other forms of fabric manufacture use fibers or filaments laid down, without interlacing, in a web and bonded together mechanically or by using adhesive. The former are needle punched nonwovens and the latter spun bonded. The resulting fabric after bonding normally produces a flexible and porous structure. These find use mostly in industrial and disposable applications. Figure 1.1 shows the schematics of fabrics produced by the methods discussed above. All these fabrics are broadly used in three major applica...

Table of contents

• Cover image
• Title page
• Table of Contents
• Copyright
• The authors
• Woodhead Publishing Series in Textiles
• Preface
• Part I: Fundamentals of woven fabric structure
• Part II: Mechanics of woven fabric structure
• Part III: Design and engineering of woven fabrics
• Part IV: Practical applications
• Index