Unidirectional water transport performance is vital for maintaining human thermal and wet comfort in the field of garment materials. In this work, a 3D orthogonal woven fabric (3DOWF) with excellent one-way transport capacity and mechanical properties is developed via 3D weaving and plasma treatment. The 3DOWF consists of polyester yarns (first layer), cotton yarns (second layer), and viscose yarns (third layer) with successively enhanced water absorption capacity. This allows droplets to penetrate spontaneously from the hydrophobic layer to the hydrophilic layer but not vice versa. Moreover, the Coolmax yarn with the core suction effect in the Z-direction and the plasma-treated polyester of the 3DOWF are shown to efficiently speed up the water transport process. In particular, the water penetration rate of the 3DOWF reaches 25 µl s-1 . In turn, the surface temperature after water absorption is increased by 2.6 °C compared with the cotton fabric, while the tensile strengths in the weft and warp directions of the 3DOWF are 49.62 and 18 MPa, respectively. These values represent the best insulation and mechanical characteristics thus far reported among unidirectional water transport fabrics. Therefore, the 3DOWF has great potential for use in watchbands, backpack belts, insoles, and other functional textiles.

Superior Unidirectional Water Transport and Mechanically Stable 3D Orthogonal Woven Fabric for Human Body Moisture and Thermal Management.

Fatigue behavior of the 3D orthogonal carbon/glass fibers hybrid composite under three-point bending load

Advanced textile technology for fabrication of ramie fiber PLA composites with enhanced mechanical properties

Piezoelectric PAN/BaTiO3 nanofiber membranes sensor for structural health monitoring of real-time damage detection in composite

In order to balance the cost performance of carbon and glass fibers, the unidirectional carbon/glass hybrid fiber reinforced polymer composite rods were developed through the pultrusion technology ...

Effect of fiber hybridization types on the mechanical properties of carbon/glass fiber reinforced polymer composite rod

This paper numerically investigated the effects of manufacturing defects and braiding angle on the impact compressive properties of three-dimensional (3D) carbon fiber/epoxy resin circular braided composite tubes. Based on the realistic geometrical architecture of 3D tubular braided preform, the full-size microstructural finite element analysis (FEA) models of the braided composite tubes with different braiding angles were established for the axial impact compression behavior at the split Hopkinson pressure bar apparatus. The manufacturing defects including fiber breakages and voids in the resin matrix were generated with Monte Carlo method in fiber tows and resin, respectively. The numerical results show the effects of defects in fiber tows and resin on the compressive strength, initial modulus, and failure strain of the braided composite tubes are both dependent on the braiding angle. The random defects have a negative influence on compressive failure mechanisms of the braided tubes. Comparing the failure morphologies of FEA models with experimental results, we found the non-ideal models containing random defects of appropriate content in fiber tows are more accurate than ideal models to simulate the dynamic compressive failure evolution process of 3D braided composite tubes.

Investigations of defect effect on dynamic compressive failure of 3D circular braided composite tubes with numerical simulation method

Effects of stitch yarns on interlaminar shear behavior of three-dimensional stitched carbon fiber epoxy composites at room temperature and high temperature

Comparisons of influence of random defects on the impact compressive behavior of three different textile structural composites

The small-size microstructure models of the 3D needled waste cotton fiber/epoxy composites (3DNWCFCs) were brought out to predict their key vibration parameters (natural frequency and mode shapes) ...

Tao Liu

Papers

Fatigue behavior of the 3D orthogonal carbon/glass fibers hybrid composite under three-point bending load

Investigations of defect effect on dynamic compressive failure of 3D circular braided composite tubes with numerical simulation method

Effects of stitch yarns on interlaminar shear behavior of three-dimensional stitched carbon fiber epoxy composites at room temperature and high temperature

Comparisons of influence of random defects on the impact compressive behavior of three different textile structural composites

Modal analysis of 3D needled waste cotton fiber/epoxy composites with experimental and numerical methods: