Woodhead Publishing Joining Textiles: Principles and Applications (Woodhead Publishing Series in Textiles)

Understanding the techniques for joining fabrics together in a way that facilitates maintained integrity of the joins is critical to the production of successful, structurally secure fabric products. Joining textiles: Principles and applications is an authoritative guide to the key theories and methods used to efficiently join fabrics. Part one provides a clear overview of sewing technology. The mechanics of stitching, sewing and problems related to sewn textiles are discussed alongside mechanisms of sewing machines, and intelligent sewing systems. Part two goes on to explore adhesive bonding of textiles, including principles, methods and applications. Welding technologies are then the focus of part three, before part four reviews varied applications of joining textiles. Key Features: provides an authoritative guide to the key theories and methods used to efficiently join fabrics; discusses the mechanics of stitching and sewing and problems related to sewn textiles, alongside mechanisms of sewing machines, and intelligent sewing systems; explores adhesive bonding of textiles, including principles, methods and applications, along with a review of bonding requirements in coating and laminating of textiles. Contents: Types of fabric and their joining requirements. Part 1 Sewing technology: The mechanics of stitching; The sewing of textiles; Mechanisms of sewing machines; Problems relating to sewing; The quality and performance of sewn seams; Intelligent sewing systems for garment automation and robotics. Part 2 Adhesive bonding of textiles: Adhesive bonding of textiles: Principles, types of adhesive and methods of use; Adhesives bonding of textiles: Applications; Bonding requirements in coating and laminating of textiles. Part 3 Welding technologies: The use of heat sealing, hot air and hot wedge to join textile materials; Ultrasonic and dielectric welding of textiles; Laser seaming of fabrics; Properties and performance of welded or bonded seams. Part 4 Applications of joining textiles: The appearance of seams in non-iron shirts; Seams in car seat coverings: properties and performance; Joining of wearable electronic components; Joining of technical textiles with stringent seam demands; Nonwoven materials and joining techniques; Epilogue: Joining textiles.