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ADVANCES IN MODERN WOVEN FABRICS TECHNOLOGY Edited by Savvas Vassiliadis Advances in Modern Woven Fabrics Technology Edited by Savvas Vassiliadis Published by InTech Janeza Trdine 9, 51000 Rijeka, Croatia Copyright © 2011 InTech All chapters are Open Access articles distributed under the Creative Commons Non Commercial Share Alike Attribution 3.0 license, which permits to copy, distribute, transmit, and adapt the work in any medium, so long as the original work is properly cited. After this work has been published by InTech, authors have the right to republish it, in whole or part, in any publication of which they are the author, and to make other personal use of the work. Any republication, referencing or personal use of the work must explicitly identify the original source. Statements and opinions expressed in the chapters are these of the individual contributors and not necessarily those of the editors or publisher. No responsibility is accepted for the accuracy of information contained in the published articles. The publisher assumes no responsibility for any damage or injury to persons or property arising out of the use of any materials, instructions, methods or ideas contained in the book. Publishing Process Manager Niksa Mandic Technical Editor Teodora Smiljanic Cover Designer Jan Hyrat Image Copyright meirion matthias, 2010. Used under license from Shutterstock.com First published July, 2011 Printed in Croatia A free online edition of this book is available at www.intechopen.com Additional hard copies can be obtained from [email protected] Advances in Modern Woven Fabrics Technology, Edited by Savvas Vassiliadis p. cm. ISBN 978-953-307-337-8 free online editions of InTech Books and Journals can be found at www.intechopen.com Contents Preface IX Part 1 Multifunctional Woven Fabrics 1 Chapter 1 Electro-Conductive Sensors and Heating Elements Based on Conductive Polymer Composites in Woven Fabric Structures 3 Irina Cristian, Saad Nauman, Cédric Cochrane and Vladan Koncar Chapter 2 Smart Woven Fabrics in Renewable Energy Generation 23 Derman Vatansever, Elias Siores, Ravi L. Hadimani and Tahir Shah Part 2 Computational Modelling and Structural Woven Fabrics 39 Chapter 3 Mechanical Analysis of Woven Fabrics: The State of the Art 41 Savvas Vassiliadis, Argyro Kallivretaki, Dimitra Domvoglou and Christofer Provatidis Chapter 4 Finite Element Modeling of Woven Fabric Composites at Meso-Level Under Combined Loading Modes 65 Mojtaba Komeili and Abbas S. Milani Chapter 5 Multiaxis Three Dimensional (3D) Woven Fabric 79 Kadir Bilisik Part 3 Design and Appearance of Woven Fabrics 107 Chapter 6 Functional Design of the Woven Filters 109 Cioară Lucica and Cioară Ioan Chapter 7 Color and Weave Relationship in Woven Fabrics 129 Kavita Mathur and Abdel-Fattah M. Seyam VI Contents Part 4 Advanced Properties of Woven Fabrics 151 Chapter 8 Sensory and Physiological Issue 153 Laurence Schacher, Sourour Bensaid, Selsabil El-Ghezal Jeguirim and Dominique Adolphe Chapter 9 Superhydrophobic Superoleophobic Woven Fabrics 179 Hoonjoo Lee and Jeffery Owens Chapter 10 The Flame Retardant Nomex/cotton and Nylon/Cotton Blend Fabrics for Protective Clothing 197 Charles Q. Yang and Hui Yang Chapter 11 Liquid Transport in Nylon 6.6. Woven Fabrics Used for Outdoor Performance Clothing 211 A. B. Nyoni Preface Woven fabric: a simple structure, with complex properties and a unique behaviour! Two sets of interlaced yarns, the warp and the weft, in various patterns result in this valuable fibrous product. The woven fabrics are highly deformable, especially in bending and shearing. Consequently, they were the only materials fulfilling the requirements of the body protection, providing simultaneously a high level of comfort. The same basic production principles are adopted from the time of the hand crafted production until today for the industrialized products. The early use of the woven fabrics was mainly in clothing and domestic applications. The so called technical applications in the past were rare (sails, tents etc). Gradually, more and more technical applications appeared. In the last period an explosive use of the woven fabrics in new application fields is being observed. In parallel to the common traditional clothing and domestic commodities, very important high value added technical products have been designed and produced. Currently, the use of woven fabrics is being continuously expanded in fields including medical, military, structural, telecommunications, electronic, aerospace etc. applications. Thus the importance of the woven fabrics increases constantly. The specific and critical character of the technical applications imposed a dynamic change in the fields of the design, engineering, production and testing. The traditional empirical approach has been replaced by the careful modelling, calculation of the properties, prediction of the behaviour and the final evaluation of the performance. The modern approach is reflected on the majority of the recent research results, the patents and the scientific publications of the academic and industrial research community. The new technological position and role of the woven fabrics causes important changes and evolutions in some key fields. Therefore the four sections of the current book correspond to the most influenced thematic areas:  Multifunctional character  Computational modelling and structural elements  Design and appearance  Advanced properties The first section focused on the multifunctional character of the woven fabrics consists of two chapters. The heat sensors and the heating elements based on the use of conductive fibres, incorporated in woven fabrics are presented in the first chapter. The X Preface important issue of the energy harvesting is the topic covered by the second chapter. Piezoelectric fibres are used in woven fabrics and their imposed mechanical deformations result in the generation of electrical power. The second section consists of three chapters and deals with the computational modelling and structural elements. Chapter three comprises a thorough examination of the mechanical modelling of the woven fabrics and leads to the state-of-the-art of the computational mechanical modelling in various scales. The use of the finite elements method for the prediction of the mechanical behaviour of woven fabric composites at meso-level and under combined loading modes, is the subject of the fourth chapter. The overview of the production methods and the classification of the multiaxis three-dimensional fabrics are the subject of the fifth chapter. The third section contains three chapters and includes design and appearance issues. The computer supported functional design of the woven filters with the respective applications are presented in the sixth chapter. The automatic recognition of the woven fabrics based on the computational image processing method of the texture analysis is the subject of the seventh chapter. The eighth chapter involves the examination of the color and weave design relationship in woven fabrics made from colored yarns. The fourth section, about the advanced properties of woven fabrics, consists of four chapters. The sensory and physiological issues as major and strategic design factors involving artificial neural networks and fuzzy logic tools is the topic of the ninth chapter of the book. In the tenth chapter is presented a theoretical and practical approach of the super-hydrophobic and super-oleophovic woven fabrics. The finishing techniques for the production of flame retardant Nomex/cotton, nylon/cotton and polyester/cotton blend fabrics for protective clothing is described in chapter eleven. In the twelfth chapter exists the presentation of the liquid transport issues for Nylon 6.6 woven fabrics used for outdoor performance clothing. The authors of the twelve chapters are widely known for their expertise. They have been invited to contribute in this book because of their international reputation in their particular fields. Every single chapter though has a pioneering and innovative character corresponding to the respective state-of-the-art. The result is a highly interdisciplinary book with breaking through contents. From the current position, I would like to thank the authors for their valuable contribution, prompt response and cooperation during the preparation of the book. The open access publishing principle is a new and powerful tool for the free and worldwide dissemination of the scientific knowledge. I wish and hope that the current open access book will serve better and more efficiently the future readers. Savvas G. Vassiliadis TEI Piraeus Greece