Contents
Part I New Machines
Over-braiding or Over weaving—An Alternative Covering Process . . . 3
Daniel Denninger
Multi Bifurcation Branch Braided Structures on a Herzog
Variation Braiding Machine . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Roxana Miksch and Frank Ficker
Part II Modelling and Testing
Geometrical Modelling of Tubular and Flat Braids
Within the Jamming Limits—Verification and Limitations . . . . . . . . . 23
Yordan Kyosev and Alena Cordes
Geometrical Modeling of Tubular Braided Structures
Overbraiding Polygonal Prism Based on the Intersection
of Surfaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Ning Fangggang and Yu Weidong
Investigation of the Bending Rigidity of Double Braided Ropes . . . . . . 47
Lawrence R. Msalilwa, Yordan Kyosev, Amit Rawal
and Uttam Kumar
Tensile Properties of Double Braided Flax Fiber Ropes . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Lawrence R. Msalilwa, Yordan Kyosev, Amit Rawal
and Uttam Kumar
The Numerical Prediction of the Tensile Behaviour of Multilayer
Woven Tapes Made by Multifilament Yarns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Yordan Kyosev, Stepan Lomov and Katalin Küster
Part III Technical Applications
End Fasteners of High Performance Fibre Ropes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Markus Michael, David Holschemacher and Peter Streubel
Influence of Braid Carrier Tension on Carbon Fibre Braided
Preforms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Sree Shankhachur Roy, Wentao Zao and Prasad Potluri
Sensor Integration in Carbon Fiber Reinforced Plastics
(CFRP) to Detect Tension Differences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
Jens Schäfer, Cristin Konkart and Thomas Gries
Investigation of the Relations Between the Parameters
in the Radial Braiding Process. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Viktor Reimer, Su Alptekin and Thomas Gries
Narrow Woven Fabrics Applied for Conveyor Facilities . . . . . . . . . . . 121
I. Berbig, D. Holschemacher, C. Kern and M. Michael
Multilayer Textile-Based Woven Batteries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Marina Normann, Yordan Kyosev, Andrea Ehrmann
and Anne Schwarz-Pfeiffer
Part IV Materials and Modifications
Chinese HMPE Fibers in Textile Semi-finished
Parts—A Competitve Price–Performance Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Jens Mammitzsch, David Häser and Andreas Kretschmer
Natural Materials for Surface Modification of Cellulosic Narrow
Woven Fabrics—Strides Towards Fully Bio-based Composites . . . . . . 149
Thomas Grethe, Hajo Haase and Boris Mahltig
Overview of the Sustainable Materials for Composites
and Their Industrial Adaptability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155
Taraneh Khademi
Preface
“Recent Developments in Braiding and Narrow Weaving” presents selected works on recent developments in the area of braiding, narrow weaving and related technology topics, presented during the “International Week of Narrow Fabrics” in March 2016 at the Hochschule Niederrhein—University of Applied Sciences in Mönchengladbach, Germany.
The faculty of Textile and Clothing Technology at the Hochschule Niederrhein has a unique position in the area of education and research of narrow fabrics, having professorship and several regular classes at the bachelor and master levels, covering machines, technologies, and applications of narrow woven and braided fabrics. The international week of narrow fabrics hosted two conferences—the “2nd Mönchegladbach braiding colloquium” and the “1st Monchengladbach narrow weaving colloquium”, where leading industries, researchers and students met and discussed the recent topics intensively.
The chapters are grouped into four parts, where the first part covers two new machines. Daniel Denninger’s new method and machine for covering profiles creates triaxial woven-like structures, similar to the braided structure, although it is a winding structure interlaced as a woven one. Multibifurkation branches produced on the Herzog variation braiding machine is the topic of the second chapter in this part.
The part “modelling and testing” comprises two papers on experimental investigations of linen double-braided ropes and two papers on prediction of the geometry and properties of braids with modern software. The last chapter in this part presents the possibilities of application of the Wisetex software for modelling dense technical tapes.
The part “technical applications” includes chapters on end fasteners and new applications of woven tapes as narrow woven conveyors and batteries. The other three chapters cover experimental investigations of different parameters of the braiding process for composites.
The part “materials and modifications” includes competitive price-performance analysis of Chinese HMPE fibres in textile semi-finished parts, followed by a chapter on surface modifications of narrow fabrics and concludes with an overview of the sustainable materials for composites.
I hope you will enjoy this work and will get several new useful ideas and information for your praxis.