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An Ultrahigh-Strength Braided Smart Yarn for Wearable Individual Sensing and Protection
The insufficient comprehensive mechanical properties and inadequate flexibility of wearable sensors limit their body-protection capability, durability, and comfort. There are challenges in using flexible weara...
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Ballistic Penetration Behaviours of Full-Width Weft Insertion Fabric Reinforced Flexible Composite
The demands of body armor on level of protection, weight, flexibility and comfort have always been difficult to strike an optimal balance. Most studies aim to promote the impact resistance of bulletproof mater...
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Tensile Creep Performance of PVC Flexible Composites Reinforced With Aramid Warp-Knitted Fabrics From Various Architectures
This paper aims to investigate the tensile creep behavior of PVC flexible composites reinforced with various aramid warp-knitted fabrics (PCRAWF). The tensile creep test of PCRAWF was conducted and the impact ...
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Large-scale Fabrication of Snake-skin-inspired Protective Composite Textiles
Inspired by the overlap** structure of snake scales, a reinforced scale-like knitted fabric (R-SLKF) was created in this work. To achieve this, short carbon fibers in an epoxy resin (ER) matrix were incorpor...
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Advances in Creep Behaviors of Textile Composites
Textile composites have been widely used in various fields because of their excellent mechanical properties. Textile composites have viscoelastic properties, which mainly include matrix and reinforcement mater...
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Integral Forming Manufacture of Weft-Knitted 3D Hernia Repair Mesh
Low melting point polyester (LMPET)/regular polyester (PET) monofilaments with diameters of 0.13 mm and 0.14 mm were used as material. Meshes with three different knit loop lengths were produced using a flat k...
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Numerical Study on Damage Behavior of Fiber-Metal Laminates Subjected to High Velocity Fragments Impact
Fiber metal laminates (FMLs) are widely used in a variety of protective structures due to their excellent impact resistance. In the present work, a nonlinear finite element (FE) model is developed to investiga...
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High-Speed Sirospun Conductive Yarn for Stretchable Embedded Knitted Circuit and Self-Powered Wearable Device
In the intelligent era, the textile technique is a high efficiency, mature and simple manufacturing solution capable of fabricating fully flexible wearable devices. However, the external circuit with its integ...
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Damage Characteristics of Cotton Yarn in High-speed Warp-knitting Processing from Finite Element Simulation
In this study, the damage of cotton yarn in high-speed warp knitting is studied by means of experimental analysis and finite element simulation. 60 s compact-spun cotton yarn was used as the experimental objec...
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Low-Velocity Impact Damage Simulation of Biaxial Warp-Knitted Flexible Composite with Simplified Microstructure Model
In this paper, the low-velocity impact deformation behavior of biaxial warp-knitted flexible composite was investigated. A simplified finite element model (FEM) of the flexible composite is presented. The mech...
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Green preparation of silk fibroin/bamboo-derived cellulose nanofibril nanocomposite films with high mechanical strength
Regenerated silk fibroin (SF) has broad application prospects in tissue engineering due to its excellent biocompatibility, but its lack of adequate mechanical properties restricts its application as a biomater...
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Comparative Study on the Tribological Properties of PTFE Coated Kevlar Fabric and Hybrid PTFE/Kevlar Fabric
Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE)/Kevlar fabric has been widely used in functional fabric composites applied to wear-resistant lining. In this study, the fabric sprayed PTFE and paste a PTFE film have been compar...
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Unidirectional Wettability Performances of Weft-knitted Fabric Based on Yarn Structure
The performance of unidirectional moisture conductivity is affected by the structure of the selected yarn. A weft-knitted fabric with unidirectional moisture conductivity was produced on Mach2X 153 computerize...
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Experimental Investigation on Mechanical Properties of Biaxial Warp-knitted Flexible Composite
In this paper, biaxial warp-knitted flexible composites (BWFS) were fabricated with high tenacity polyester and PU film. The mechanical properties of the above BWFS samples are tested, including their tensile ...
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Effect of Knitting and Finishing Parameters on the Initial Young’s Modulus and Tensile Strength for Polyester Weft Knitted Interlock Fabric
75D/72f and 100D/96f polyester yarns were knitted to develop three kinds of fabrics with different densities (large, medium and small) on circular knitting machine (gauge E18). It was found that the strength o...
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Effect of Stitch Characteristics on Flammability and Thermo-Physiological Comfort Properties of Knitted Fabrics
Investigations on influence of stitch types in single jersey knitted fabric on flammability and comfort properties are carried out in this paper. Seven different knitted structures were developed on single jer...
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The Unidirectional Wettability Property of a New Warp-knitted Double-face Fabric
In order to knit a warp-knitted fabric with unidirectional wettability property, polyester multifilament and cotton yarn were used as raw materials, and samples were produced on an RD6 EL warp-knitting machine...
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The Analysis and Comparison of the Needle-puncture Property of Four Types of Silkworm Cocoons
Silkworm cocoons display outstanding properties in many aspects, such as thermal protection, biocompatibility and mechanical resistance and so on. In this paper, we focus on the puncture properties without det...
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The Moisture Management and Drying Properties of Weft Knitted Plating Fabrics
The six types of weft knitted fabric in plating structure were made by cotton, polypropylene and polyester with different number of filaments. The fabrics were tested by moisture management tester, vertical wi...
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Finite Element Simulation of Tensile Preload Effects on High Velocity Impact Behavior of Fiber Metal Laminates
As primary structures and protective structures, fiber metal laminates (FMLs) in practical application are always in preload states before possible impact damage threats. In this work, a nonlinear finite eleme...
