Technical Knitted Fabrics

Teachers in charge

Prof. Vesna Marija Potočić Matković, Ph.D.

Suradnici:

Gabriela Vanja, mag. ing. techn. text., Assistant

Study, Module

Textile Technology and Engineering - graduate, Module Engineering Design and Management of Textiles

Course summary ∑ (L+P+S):

4 (2+2+0)

ECTS

6

Knowledge verification

writing exam, oral exam

Precondition for testing

Knitting

Lecture type

lectures, practice

Exercise type

audio practice, laboratory practice, workshops

Subject content

Fabrics derived from weft single and double-jesey structures. Fabric structures with extreme properties - with longitudinal and transverse yarns. 3D products. Compressive stocking wear. Warp knitted fabric: open structures, closed structures, stable structures and three-dimensional structures. Mono-axial structures, bi-axial, multi-axial and composite fabrics. Directionally oriented structures. Technical knitted fabrics for automotive, geotextile, agriculture and medical purposes.

Aim of course

In view of the uniqueness and challenge of knitted technical textiles students have to understand and apply the principles of textile sience and technology to provide solutions, in the main to technological problems but also often to engineering problems as well. With the emphasis on measurable textile perfomance in a particular field of application, students will learn to apply not only an intricate knowledge of fibres and knitted textile but also an understanding of the application for different purposes.

Literature necessary for course

A R Horrocks and S C Anand: Handbook of technical textiles, Woodhead Publishing Limited, Cambridge England, 2000 Samuel Raz: Warp Knitting Production, Verlag Melliand Textilberichte GmbH, Heidelberg, Germany, 1987

Supplement literature

Subhash Anand: Medical Textiles, Woodhead Publishing Limited, Cambridge England, 1999