Weft Knitted Loop Geometry of Glass and Steel Fibre Fabrics Measured with X-Ray Micro-Computer Tomography

2013
Gaļina Harjkova, Marcin Barburski, Stepan V. Lomov, Olga Kononova, Ignaas Verpoest

X-ray micro-computer tomography (micro-CT) provides 3D visualization of internal geometry of a textile without destructing samples. The objective of this paper is to demonstrate usage of the micro-CT technique for structural analysis of weft-knitted fabrics and to propose a data processing technique for reconstruction and visualization of the loop geometry. The method is applied to glass and steel knitted fabrics. It produces a full description of the loop geometry, namely yarn middle line, cross-section areas and orientation along the yarn.

Keywords
Knitted fabric, micro-CT, X-ray, image analysis, internal stracture
DOI
10.1177/0040517513503730
Hyperlink
http://trj.sagepub.com/content/early/2013/12/06/0040517513503730.abstract?rss=1

Harjkova, G., Barburski, M., Lomov, S., Kononova, O., Verpoest, I. Weft Knitted Loop Geometry of Glass and Steel Fibre Fabrics Measured with X-Ray Micro-Computer Tomography [online]. Sage Journals, 2013. Available from: http://trj.sagepub.com/content/early/2013/12/06/0040517513503730.abstract?rss=1

Publication language
English (en)