Editorial

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Stylios, G. (2015), "Editorial", International Journal of Clothing Science and Technology, Vol. 27 No. 5. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJCST-07-2015-0082

Editorial

Article Type: Editorial From: International Journal of Clothing Science and Technology, Volume 27, Issue 5.

IJCST: Technical, rigorous, strategic and diverse platform of information exchange winning confidence by increasing its impact factor

I would like to dedicate this editorial to our authors, to our reviewers, to our editorial board and to the publisher, who all together contributed to another increase of confidence in IJCST by increasing its impact factor, which has now become 0.350 Thomson Reuters. For a small, niche, specialised journal like the IJCST this is a marked achievement and our commitment is to increase to the impact factor further and ultimately push it as it can go. I would therefore like to focus on the content of this issue by celebrating our authors and their papers.

The issue contains ten highly technical papers ranging from organic cotton, lyocell and soybean protein fibre SPF, to wool yarns and their manufacturing quality, the technology of solospun yarns and then going on to basalt fabrics for protection, a paper on electromagnetic shielding fabrics, a paper on carbon textiles, moving onto fabric defects detection, to a paper on pressure, stiffness and elongation of hosiery, to body modelling and finally to a respirator design. All papers have been revised with rigour by a blind reviewing process and elegantly typeset with care to make this journal Issue 5 of Volume 27. Some of the highlights of those papers are as follows.

Our first paper on electroshielding by Zhe Liu; Xing Rong; Xiuchen Wang and Zhong Zhou deals with the effectiveness of electromagnetic shielding which is related to the vertical and horizontal maximum size of holes and the direction of the polarisation wave. As the direction of the polarisation wave is vertical or horizontal, greater maximum size results in lower SE. "Key Size theory" and "Secondary Size theory" are proposed to explain the influencing mechanism. Important recommendations are being discussed for the design of EMS fabrics applied to garments, composite materials and tents.

The second paper by Xinjin Liu and Xuzhong Su supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China deals with Solospun technology, an important new yarn spinning method, arranged by dividing the ring spinning triangle into several small primary triangles and one final triangle by a so called Solospun roller. To understand the process and subsequently the quality of the spun yarn the authors have put forward a theoretical study in which yarn torque is related to fibre tension.

The third paper by Rachid Halfaoui deals with wool carding and combing. The tensile mechanical properties of a textile yarn depend on the mechanical properties of its components, the average number of fibres or filaments, their twist and fibre cohesion. During weaving the warp yarn is subjected to repeated extension, this study shows that yarn fatigue results in a number of breaks in the loom and in some cases in alteration of fabric physical properties. The decrease of yarn resistance and the elongation at break is more profound in carded than combed yarns.

The fourth paper is by Yumiao Chen, Jianping Wang and Zhongliang Yang. Many attempts have been made to study the fit, human performance, comfort and mood of respirators, but physical, psychological and physiological indices are also valuable the paper highlights. Quantitative and qualitative approaches were adopted to illustrate the human performance and wellbeing influenced by respirators. A summary table presents the major methods used for indices of respirators in the field of HFE and new challenges exposed for future design research.

The fifth paper by Peng, Brian Corner, and Steven Paquette is on human body modelling and specifically the torso. In order to analyse body shape variation within a population, a DCTbased shape description method was employed to compress a dense threedimensional 3D body scan surface into a small vector that preserves shape and removes size. The DCTbased shape descriptors of torso surfaces were further fed to principal component analysis that decomposed shape variation into constituent shape components. A visualisation programme was developed to observe principal components of torso shape and interpret their meaning.

The next paper by Regina A. Sanches, João Paulo Pereira Marcicano, João Paulo Pereira Marcicano, João Paulo Pereira Marcicano, Bárbara Maria Gama Guimarães, Raquel Seawright Alonso, Karina Mitie Takamune, Adriana Yumi Sato Duarte and Franco Giuseppe Dedinipresents a comparative study on the characteristics of knitted fabrics used in the manufacturing of apparel, which are produced from organic cotton, lyocell and SPF. This paper is important for the environment emphasising the importance of ecofriendly materials and it is increasing the awareness regarding material choices available to the consumer and their environmental impact. The use of sustainable fibres may be a starting point for changing the industrial paradigm of the textile industry.

Paper seven by RafaŁ Hrynyk and Iwona Frydrych on protective gloves reports on how the glove contact heat requirement at 100°C was achieved. Application of aluminised basalt fabrics in the glove reverse side allowed obtaining the fourth performance level for resistance to small metal splashes and assured the highest protection against radiant heat and small metal splashes. The fulfilment of standard requirements for glove mechanical parameters was achieved and significantly higher values than required were registered.

The next paper is by Aleksander, Kovaevi; Milesa Srekovi, Branka Kaludjerovi, Aleksandar Bugarinovi and Dragan Druijani on carbon textile materials and their interaction with laser beams. The authors conclude that this interaction depends on laser power, plasma and destructive phenomena occurred. The case of interaction between a Nd3+:YAG laser beam and specimen thickness was examined and models presented.

The next paper by Zhoufeng Liu, Chunlei Li, Quanjun Zhao, Liang Liao and Yan Dong is on fabric defects. This paper provides an algorithm in which a target image is first divided into blocks and using the LBP technique the texture features of these blocks are revealed. For any given image block, several other blocks are randomly chosen for calculating the LBP contrast between a given block and the randomly chosen blocks. Based on the obtained contrast information, a saliency map is produced. Finally the saliency map is segmented by using an optimal threshold, which is obtained by an iterative approach.

Last but not least in this issue is paper ten by Rui Dan, Zhang, Mei, Zhen Shi and Mei Zhang deals with hosiery. Through 3D body scanning, a biomechanical lower leg crosssection model is constructed for simulating elastic contact between human body and top part of socks. The human body is regarded as an elastomer and the contact between lower leg and top part of the sock as its elastic contact. The displacement distribution tendency under pressure is obtained using ANSYS and the relationship between the elastic elongation of the top part of the socks in wear between pressure and stiffness coefficient established.

Happy reading.

George Stylios