
Atlas of Fibre Fracture and Damage to Textiles
Woodhead Publishing Ltd
2nd Edition
Published on 14. July 1998
Book
Hardback
468 pages
978-1-85573-319-0 (ISBN)
Description
This new, retitled, edition of Fibre Failure and Wear of Materials has been updated and expanded to include more examples from work at UMIST (University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology) in the 1990s and to take account of recent research elsewhere. It contains over 500 new micrographs to add to the 1,000 in the first edition and includes two new sections on forensic and medical studies. Based on over 25 years of research at UMIST, the book is concerned with how fibres fail under stress. Until comparatively recently little was known about the way in which fibres break. In this book about 20 different modes of fibre failure are examined. Case studies have been selected both from the traditional uses of textiles in clothing and in household products, such as sheets, towels and carpets and also from the study of failure in textile structures used in industry and engineering, for example seat belts and ropes.
This unique collection of more than 1500 scanning electron micrographs and other pictures for identifying failure modes, together with the accompanying explanatory text, provides fibre scientists, polymer scientists and others working in textile research with a better understanding of fracture mechanisms. The book will also be of interest to forensic scientists and medical specialists using fibre implants. Finally, it will help textile technologists and design engineers to manufacture improved textile products and to use them in ways which will maximise their life span.
This unique collection of more than 1500 scanning electron micrographs and other pictures for identifying failure modes, together with the accompanying explanatory text, provides fibre scientists, polymer scientists and others working in textile research with a better understanding of fracture mechanisms. The book will also be of interest to forensic scientists and medical specialists using fibre implants. Finally, it will help textile technologists and design engineers to manufacture improved textile products and to use them in ways which will maximise their life span.
More details
Series
Edition
2nd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Elsevier Science & Technology
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
ch.
Dimensions
Height: 297 mm
Width: 210 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-85573-319-0 (9781855733190)
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Additional editions

J. W. S. Hearle | B. Lomas | W. D. Cooke
Atlas of Fibre Fracture and Damage to Textiles
E-Book
07/1998
2nd Edition
Woodhead Publishing
€500.00
Available for download
Persons
John W S Hearle is Emeritus Professor of Textile Technology, UMIST Brenda Lomas was formerly a Senior Experimental Officer, Department of Textiles, UMIST William D Cooke is a Senior Lecturer, Department of Textiles, UMIST
Content
Tensile failures; Fatigue; Other fibre studies; Textile processing and testing; Case studies - clothing and domestic uses; Case studies - industrial uses; Fibre archaeology and textile conservation; Forensic studies; Textile damage in forensic investigations; Medical applications.