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

Textile Research Journal 2014
Gaļina Harjkova, Marcin Barburski, Stepan 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 structure
DOI
10.1177/0040517513503730
Hyperlink
http://trj.sagepub.com/content/84/5/500

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. Textile Research Journal, 2014, Vol.84, Iss.5, pp.500-512. ISSN 0040-5175. e-ISSN 1746-7748. Available from: doi:10.1177/0040517513503730

Publication language
English (en)