Woodhead Publishing Modelling and Predicting Textile Behaviour (Woodhead Publishing Series in Textiles)

The textile industry can experience a vast array of problems, modelling can highlight the mechanisms involved and analyse useful predictive results for solving these problems. This book will provide an overview of how textile modelling can be used within the textile industry. The first group of chapters reviews the different types of models and methods of how models can predict textile structures and behaviour. The second group of chapters presents a selection of case studies, expressing the strengths and limitations and how various models are applied in specific applications. Chapters include the modelling of colour and drape in textiles. Key Features: provides an overview of the different types of models and methods that can be used successfully within the textile industry; reviews the structural hierarchy in textile materials fundamental to the modelling of textile fibrous structures; assesses the strengths and weaknesses of different textile models and how specific models are applied in different situations. Contents: Part 1 Modelling the structure and behaviour of textiles: Structural hierarchy in textile materials: an overview; Fundamental modelling of textile fibrous structures; Yarn modelling; Modelling the structures and properties of woven fabrics; Modelling of nonwoven materials; Modelling and visualization of knitted fabrics. Part 2 Case studies: Modelling of fluid flow and filtration through woven fabrics; Modelling, simulation and control of textile dyeing; Modelling colour properties for textiles; 3D modelling, simulation and visualisation techniques for drape textiles and garments; Recognition, differentiation and classification of regular repeating patterns in textiles; Modelling of 3D cellular textile composites for protection against trauma impact; Development and application of expert systems in the textile industry. About the Author Dr Xiaogang Chen graduated obtained his PhD in Textile Engineering from the University of Leeds in 1991. He is currently reading technical textiles in the School of Materials, The University of Manchester. In the field of modelling, he worked on mathematical models leading to the creation of CAD software for 2D and 3D woven fabrics. He also researched into geometric and mechanical modelling of textiles for engineering technical textiles. He has applied his modelling approach into the prediction of textile behaviour in energy absorption, fluid filtration, textile composites and ballistic protection.