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Fibres to Smart Textiles: Advances in Manufacturing, Technologies, and Applications offers comprehensive coverage of the fundamentals and advances in the textile and clothing manufacturing sectors. It describes the basics of fibres, yarns, and fabrics and their end use in the latest developments and applications in the field and addresses environmental impacts from textile processes and how to minimize them.
This book serves as a single comprehensive source discussing textile fibres, yarn formation, filament formation techniques, woven fabric formation, knitting technologies, nonwoven manufacturing technologies, braiding technologies, and dyeing, printing, and finishing processes. Testing of textile materials, environmental impacts of textile processes and use of CAD and CAM in designing textile products are also included. The book also discusses applications including textile composites and biocomposites, technical textiles, smart textiles, and nanotextiles.
With chapters authored by textile experts, this practical book offers guidance to professionals in textile and clothing manufacturing and shows how to avoid potential pitfalls in product development.
List of contents
1. Textile Fibres and Developments. 2. Filament Formation and Recent Developments. 3. Yarn Formation and Recent Developments. 4. Fabric Formation and Recent Developments. 5. Knitting and Recent Developments. 6. Non-Woven Fabrics: Technology, Applications and Recent Developments. 7. Braiding and Recent Developments. 8. Preparatory Chemical Processes and Recent Developments. 9. Dyeing and Recent Developments.10. Printing and Recent Developments. 11. finishing Processes and Recent Developments. 12. Testing of Fibres and their recent Developments. 13. Recent Developments to Reduce Environmental Impacts of Textile and Apparel. 14. Use of CAD and CAM and It's Recent Developments in Textiles. 15. Recent Developments in Textile-Reinforced Composites and Biocomposites. 16. Technical Textiles and Recent Developments. 17. Smart Textiles and Recent Developments. 18. Nanotextiles and Recent Developments.
About the author
Dr. Asis Patnaik is the Acting Head of Department in the Department of Clothing and Textile Technology, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Cape Town, South Africa.
Dr. Sweta Patnaik is Lecturer in the Department of Clothing and Textile Technology, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Cape Town, South Africa.
Summary
This book offers comprehensive coverage of the fundamentals and advances in the textile and clothing manufacturing sectors. It describes the basics of fibres, yarns, and fabrics and their end use in the latest developments and applications in the field and addresses environmental impacts from textile processes and how to minimize them.
