About this Abstract |
Meeting |
MS&T22: Materials Science & Technology
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Symposium
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2022 Undergraduate Student Poster Contest
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Presentation Title |
The Effect of Sewing Stitches on the Mechanical Behavior of Cotton Fabrics |
Author(s) |
Harmony S. Werth, Kazi Hossian, Rashed Khan |
On-Site Speaker (Planned) |
Harmony S. Werth |
Abstract Scope |
Cotton threads and knitted fabrics have been investigated for advanced applications, including garments and electronic textiles. Threads are looped into patterns, known as stitches. They are manually or digitally sewn into the fabrics to manufacture new composite materials with new functional properties. Sewn stitches strengthen or soften the fabric. However, a fundamental understanding of the modified functional properties is currently lacking in the literature. There has been limited investigation into the influence of stitches on the mechanical properties of knitted cotton fabric. Understanding how stitches change the mechanical behavior of the fabric is essential to enable future applications that may not exist today. Our experimental results, combined with those obtained from materials modeling software (MCalibration), suggest a 99.9% confidence in assessing the influence of the threads on the fabrics. The information obtained from this project will aid in future research involving the application of knitted cotton fabric and cotton threads. |