Routledge Engineering Cotton Yarns with Artificial Neural Networking (ANN) (Woodhead Publishing India in Textiles)

This book is designed to provide a platform for the critical evaluation of deficits of classical cotton yarn engineering approach and how they were overruled by the development of today’s ANN based scientific approach. Legendary ring spinning process is kept as a reference and various technological changes undergone by the different sectors of the yarn engineering system are elaborated. The entire book is divided into ten chapters. The opening chapter briefs on varieties of textile fibers available and amongst them identifies the significance of cotton fiber for the textile industry. It also covers up ring spinning pattern along with constraints handled due to natural fiber variations in transitory way.Artificial Neural Networking (ANN) is the upcoming software technique to replace Biological Neural Network (Human brain) for accurate resolution of complex problems, fifth chapter remits on this technology. About the Author Dr. Tasnim N. Shaikh is an Associate professor of Textile Engineering at the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara. Dr. Shaikh has received her graduation, post-graduation and PhD degrees, all in Textile Engineering from the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara and joined the faculty of the University in 1990. She has been associated with this noble profession for more than 26 years. Dr. Shaikh’s scholarly interests are in cotton spinning, manmade textiles, technical textiles and Nano technology application in the textile field. She has written books, chapters for books, more than fifty research papers as well as review papers for reputed national and international journals, and has contributed precious papers in national as well as international symposiums. Mrs. Sweety A. Agrawal is an Assistant professor, in the Textile Engineering department at the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda, Vadodara. She has completed her P.G and is currently pursuing her PhD from the same University. She has been in the teaching profession since 2008. She has various research as well as review papers in reputed national and international journals in various area of research such as testing of textile material, technical textiles and numerical simulation. She has presented papers at international conferences.