Projects / Programmes
Clothing engineering and materials
January 1, 1999
- December 31, 2003
Code |
Science |
Field |
Subfield |
2.14.00 |
Engineering sciences and technologies |
Textile and leather |
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Code |
Science |
Field |
T470 |
Technological sciences |
Textiles technology |
Researchers (24)
Organisations (1)
Abstract
The research programme Clothing Engineering and Materials is based on the complex researches regarding the study of fabric mechanics and fabric as a shell – garment. It is subdivided into three parts. The first part includes the basic research works of fabric mechanics assuming non-linear mechanical properties of the fabric at lower loading and search for the model of the fabric as a shell. The second part is based on the study of fabric behaviour, i.e., determination of the mechanical response of fabric at a lower loading, which is hypothesized to simulate the actual fabric loading situation during garment processing and wearing and has the applied character, while the third part concerns the study of a relationship between the mechanical properties of a fabric and appearance quality of the produced garment, based on which the model of the “ideal fabric” will be proposed.
Research on mechanics of the yarn as a linear bearing element of fabric and mechanical properties of fabric as a function of structure and properties of structural elements will be carried out for this purpose. Special attention will be given to the study of Pierce’s geometry, energy methods and prediction of mechanical properties of fabrics without and with inner deformational energy. Here, the structural bending model and prediction of modulus, will be researched and used as a base for study of fabric dynamic and draping.
Based on achieved cognitions, a special attention will be given to the engineered planning and projection of mechanical properties and comfort of fabrics for garments with the purpose to predict the fabric properties based on theoretical models and to set-up the model of the ideal fabric. Those fabric properties that are important for high performance suiting, taking into account bending rigidity, formability, suit appearance and mechanical comfort of fabrics will be investigated. Achieved cognitions will enable the modelling of a so-called ideal fabric using the appropriate simulation.
The theoretical study of fabric mechanics will furthermore be used to design the deformational models of garments. Achieved cognitions, based on the analytical methods and experimental researches, will be used to simulate the fabric drapability, as well as the fabric behaviour when wearing the cloth, which will be carried out with the help of a simulation of the interaction of a human’s body and garment as a shell. Determination of dynamic loading of a garment in use presents here a complex study area of the interaction between the pose changes, resp. changes of dimensions of body’s surface in time of movement, and deformation of a garment as a shell. These researches will be the starting point for the study of fabric’s rheologic behaviour models, i.e., elasticity and plasticity of the fabric as the constitutional element of a garment in use. This will be the base for further design of a model of dynamic loading of a garment during wear and with this connected simulation of a model for dynamic modelling of garments.
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