High Performance Textiles and Their Applications (Woodhead Publishing Series in Textiles) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1845691806 ISBN 13: 9781845691806

Publisher: Woodhead Publishing, 2014

Synopsis

High performance textiles represent one of the most dynamic sectors of the international textile and clothing industry. With contributions from leading experts in the field, this book provides an important overview of key developments in the field. Chapters cover the use of high performance textiles in such areas as protective clothing, heat and fire protection, medicine, civil engineering and the energy sector.

• Reviews various approaches to modelling the geometry, structure and mechanical and physical properties of advanced textile materials
• Evaluates novel surface treatments involving plasma and laser technologies for a range of high performance textiles
• Focuses on textiles for specific purposes, with chapters devoted to textiles for heat and fire protection, wound care, industrial filtration, geotextiles, civil engineering and sustainable energy applications

About this title

Review:

Provides a comprehensive review of high performance textiles for a variety of applications, including transportation, engineering, medicine and agriculture.

About the Author:

Carl Lawrence, formerly University of Leeds, UK

About this edition

• Publisher: Woodhead Publishing
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1845691806
• ISBN 13: 9781845691806
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 460
• Editor: Lawrence C.