Research Journal of Textile and Apparel: Volume 9 Issue 4

Recent Studies on Yarn Tension and Energy Consumption in Ring Spinning

Zhengxue Tang, Xungai Wang, W. Barrie Fraser

High energy consumption remains a key challenge for the widely used ring spinning system. Tackling this challenge requires a full understanding of the various factors that…

The Modeling of Insulin Controlled Release Process From Fibrous Artificial Store

Adela Medovic, Petar Skundric

In the past, insulin was frequently administered by hypodermic injection, as liquids forms. To avoid problems incurred through the utilization of the injectable route of insulin…

Color on Demand for Jacquard Fabrics

K. Mathur, A. Donaldson, D. Hinks, A.M. Seyam

Jacquard weaving provides the opportunity for designing an enormous number of complex pictorial and other patterning effects using combinations of warp colors, filling colors and…

Thermal Comfort Property of Uniform Fabrics of Selected Hong Kong Hospitality Industries

C.K. Chan, X.Y. Jiang, L.K. Chan, K. Liew, W.K. Wong, M.P. Lau

Comfort is one of the most important attributes demanded by modern clothing consumers. It reflects the psychological feeling of a wearer, featured by three latent independent…

Bilinear Approximation of Anisotropic Stress-Strain Properties of Woven Fabrics

Sun-pui Ng, Roger Ng, Winnie Yu

In the theoretical derivation of the anisotropic model of the woven fabric, Kilby (1963) achieved the symmetric anisotropy model. Yet, in practice, the warp behavior of a woven…

Silk Waste/Cotton Blended Yarns in Cotton Microspinning: Physical Properties and Fibre Arrangement of Blended Yarn

R. Chollakup, A. Sinoimeri, J-F. Osselin, R. Frydrych, J-Y. Drean

The microspinning technology has generally been used for cotton in the case of small scale spinning test methods (50 gram fibres). One type of silk fibre waste -pierced…

Trade Liberalization in the Post-MFA Regime: The Influences of CEPA and Quota Phasing-out on Hong Kong's Textiles and Clothing Manufacturing Industry

K.M. Chester, Zhang To, Z.M., Leung Chun-sun, Chang Jimmy M.T., Moon K.L.

This paper examines the impact of both the China-Hong Kong free-trade agreement and quota phasing-out on Hong Kong's textiles and clothing manufacturing industry in the post- MFA…

Computer Modeling of Fiber Movements in High-Speed Airflow

Yiyun Cai, William Oxenham

High-speed airflow is widely used in many processes in the textile industry. Even though the interactions between fibers and airflows have attracted many researchers' interest…

Development of Appearance Grading Method of Cotton Yarns for Various Types of Yarns

Dariush Semnani, Masoud latifi, Mohammad Amani Tehran, Behnam Pourdeyhimi, Ali Akbar Merati

In this research, a new method is developed for grading various types of yarn for appearance using image analysis and an artificial neural network. The images of standard yarn…