Saturday, May 17, 2008

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Tuesday, May 13, 2008

[ A GUIDE TO STUDY TECHNICAL TEXTILES ]


Have we been taught these subjects.

1 ] Fibers of all types,conventional,high strength and high modulus organic fibers,high chemical-and - combustion-resistance organic fibers,high performance inorganic fibers,ultra fine and novelty fibers.

2 ] Technical Yarns.

3 ] Technical Textile fabric structures and process from fiber to fabric of all types woven,Non woven,Knitted in natural and man made fibers.

4 ] The machineries that are used.

5 ] There applications from apparel to aerospace and space.

6 ] Spinning of all types of fibers and the modern high tech technology used.

7 ] Weaving of all types of yarn on high speed modern looms and Preparatory to weaving.

8 ] Processing of all types of fabric in high sped processing machines.

9 ] Knitting on high speed knitting machines.
to be continued...



A single "Hand Book on Technical Textiles" gives the all aspects on Non Wovens.

The cover page picture of such book is shown above.

Thursday, May 1, 2008

[ Intelligent textiles that will be tought in the college.]








Figure 1. Top and cross section views of the proposed flexible skin to be woven into textiles.

Intelligent textiles, variously known as smart fabrics, electronic textiles, or e-textiles, have attracted considerable attentions worldwide due to their potential to bring revolutionary impacts on human life. Despite many promising progresses in this exciting newly emerged research field, there still exist a number of important obstacles. One of the most challenging issues is the conflict between the flexibility of the textiles and the need to incorporate sensing and computation modules. To address this critical issue, an innovative intelligent textile technology is proposed. The central hypothesis is that practical intelligent textiles can be realized by integrating fabrics with flexible transducers/electronics that are made using a unique, ‘flexible-skin’ technology.

The unique features of the silicon-based flexible skins are extremely desirable for intelligent textiles. A novel approach of making intelligent textiles by integrating the silicon-based flexible skins with textiles is proposed. The most important advantage of this novel technology is its compatibility with current MEMS and IC technologies, since MEMS devices (micromachined transducers) and ICs can be fabricated on the silicon wafer before the formation of the skin. This not only saves significant R&D efforts by avoiding re-invention, but also enables the integration of abundant sensing and computational capabilities offered by the silicon-based technology.





In order to be integrated with textiles, the original flexible skins are modified and a new perforated structure is proposed as schematically shown in Fig. 1. The new flexible skin consists of 4 components: (1) silicon islands that host sensors, electronics, and bonding pads; (2) metal interconnect wires between silicon islands; (3) polymer layers that sandwich silicon islands and metal wires; and (4) stitching holes etched through polymer layers, which allow the direct sewing into fabrics. One of the fabricated silicon flexible skins is shown in Fig. 2 (a). It can be easily twisted and bent without breaking the interconnect traces and silicon islands as shown in Fig 2 (b)
Figure 2. (a) A silicon flexible skin with stitching holes; (b) a folded silicon flexible skin.
The flexible transducers/circuits made by the proposed method can be directly embroidered into textiles. It is worth noting that the stitching methods and patterns have substantial impact on the mechanical properties and robustness of the assembled fabrics. Numerous stitching patterns and methods, which have already been developed in the textile industry, will be an excellent resource to exploit. The following picture shows one skin stitched onto the surface of textiles using conductive yarns. The electrical contact was made by conductive epoxy.
Figure 3. A silicon flexible skin stitched onto the surface of a piece of KEVLARÒ fabric.
To study the mechanical properties of the assembled intelligent textiles, diffused silicon strain gauges were integrated on silicon islands as shown in the following picture. These strain gauges enable in-situ measurement of the strains experienced by the silicon islands during stretching, twisting, or bending.
Figure 4. Flexible skin with integrated strain gauges.


Funding:

This research is supported by NSF Grant ECS-0501314.


References:

R. B. Katragadda and Y. Xu, “A Novel Intelligent Textile Technology Based on Silicon Flexible Skins”, Proceeding of the International symposium on wearable computer 2005 (ISWC05), Osaka, Japan, Oct. 18-21, 2005.