High performance textiles and their applications

✍ Scribed by Lawrence, C

• Publisher: Woodhead Publishing
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 264
• Series: Woodhead publishing in textiles no. 153
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

High performance textiles represent one of the most dynamic sectors of the international textile and clothing industry. With contributions from leading experts in the field, this book provides an important overview of key developments in the field. Chapters cover the use of high performance textiles in such areas as protective clothing, heat and fire protection, medicine, civil engineering and the energy sector.

• Reviews various approaches to modelling the geometry, structure and mechanical and physical properties of advanced textile materials
• Evaluates novel surface treatments involving plasma and laser technologies for a range of high performance textiles
• Focuses on textiles for specific purposes, with chapters devoted to textiles for heat and fire protection, wound care, industrial filtration, geotextiles, civil engineering and sustainable energy applications

✦ Table of Contents

Content: High performance textile structures and properties: an overview
Novel surface treatments for high performance textiles
High performance textiles for protective clothing
High performance textiles for heat and fire protection
High performance medical textiles
High performance wound care textiles
High performance getextiles
High performance fibers and textiles for civil engineering applications
High performance fibre-reinforced composites for sustainable energy applications.

✦ Subjects

Textile fabrics.;Textile fibers.;Industrial fabrics.;Textile fabrics;Technological innovations.;Textile fibers;Technological innovations.