Objective
Fabric design is increasing its important in textile industry. Traditionally, manufacturers produced fabrics which were expected to conform to some general behavioural requirements. The development of more sophisticated end uses for fabrics have led to an increasing the behavioural requirement and a greater tendency to specify the required standards for the cloth. At present, the major limitation in crating new design is the nee to manufacture samples, which must then be fisinshed before the resultant performance parameters can be evaluated. Pattern design simulators have been developed which only allow accurate visual representation of fabrics. However, the general inability to predict precisely how a fabric will perform in use still remains a problem.
Overall objective of the proposed project is to develop a knowledge-based system for fabric engineering design, integrating a prediction component. Such a tool will provide fabric manufacturers with the required support to predict fabric performance and assess different options while designing a new product. The designer will be offered a range of routes to achieve a given fabric performance specification, without recourse to the expenses and time involved in actually selecting fibre and yarns, weaving, finishing and testing samples. Although general in its conception and modelling approach, the tool will be developed and tested, in particular, for wool and cotton fabrics. The major achievement of the project will be a general prototype that could be subsequently developed and adapted to crate tailor made systems. Benefits from the approach are expected mainly by reducing the actual costs of producing design and by significant saving in the time taken to go from concept to sample. This will lead also to improved quality and the ability to explore innovative compositions and materials. Subsequent exploitation of the approach is envisaged in adapting the models to other fabric types (e.g. geotextiles, architectural fabrics, medical textiles, etc.) assuring appropriate technology transfer to other sectors of textile industry.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- social sciences media and communications graphic design
- engineering and technology materials engineering textiles
- natural sciences computer and information sciences artificial intelligence expert systems
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16126 Genova
Italy
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