In composite structures, the reduction in material properties due to delamination between plies has long been a major concern. Key properties such as compression strength-after-impact are particularly sensitive to delamination-related failure mechanisms.

TIRUPPUR: The NIFT-TEA Knitwear Fashion Institute have designed and developed a prototype of knitting machine for khadi fabric. Sources said the innovation comes 22 years after the institute tried to develop such a machine, but was unsuccessful. The new ...

The commercialization of clothing-type wearable robots has taken a significant step forward with the development of equipment that can continuously and automatically weave ultra-thin shape memory alloy coil yarn—thinner than a human hair—into ...

horizontal threads over vertical ones, hasn’t changed much since the invention of the loom. What’s new is the way some textile designers are changing the face of fabric: They are rethinking the way threads are dyed or put together, the design of the ...