Strain-dependent wicking behavior of cotton/lycra elastic woven fabric for sportswear

The strain-dependent vertical and horizontal wicking of as-prepared cotton/lycra elastic woven fabric was systematically studied. The experimental results revealed that the fabric exhibited a strain strengthening effect. A higher tensile strain results in a higher equilibrium wicking height, and vice versa. Moreover, the results indicated that the proposed Laughlin–Davies model is capable of tracking well the experimental data and replicating the wicking characteristics of fabric under different levels of stretch. In addition, the wetting time and wicking area of fabric under different strains and height regimes were examined during horizontal wicking. It was found that the wetting time decreased with an increase of strain and/or water drop height. The strain-enhanced and height-weakened effects of wicking area were revealed. The spreading mechanism of water drop in elastic fabric was also proposed. Such fundamental work provides a basic support for the in-depth investigation of wicking behavior of complex stretchable textile structures.

Improvement of numerical methods of contact stress calculation during cold rolling of band

The influence of a contact surface shape of the deformation zone during cold rolling of a band on the rolling force subject to parameters of the strain strengthening curve of billet material and band tension has been studied by numerical methods. The comparison of the obtained results and well-known ones allowed one to set that in case of the presense of strain strengthening, the replacement of the arc of contact by the chord resulted in a decrease in calculated force of rolling, whose value depends on the presence of the fore tension and the back tension and parameters of strain strengthening of metal.