Spacer Fabric

Spacer fabric attracts considerable attention from textile industry due to its advantageous properties compared to conventional fabrics. Spacer fabric has two multifilament layers connected by single filaments, and this creates sandwich structure with high breathability. Therefore, it provides good thermal and humidity control. Moreover, comfort of the skin improves by distributing the contact pressure at the interface. Understanding the stress distribution at the contact and response to the compressive loading is important for the spacer fabric. This study first describes the FEA modeling of the spacer fabric in detailed unit cell. Then, it compares the results with experiments. Besides that, hyperelastic empirical FEA model methodology was presented, and this method is expected to allow the designers to test the spacer fabric performances in designing phase.

E. Soylemez, “Modeling of a Spacer Fabric Under Various Compressive Loads,” International Journal of Advances in Engineering and Pure Sciences, vol. 30, 4, pp. 358-364, 2018. http://dergipark.gov.tr/marufbd/issue/40256/423012