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Trends in Textile Engineering & Fashion Technology

Experimental Measurements of the Shapes Adopted by Textiles when Subject to Wind Loading

  • Open or CloseJason Knight1*, Joanna Harding Pitt2 and Diogo Montalvão3

    1Senior Lecturer, BRAC Business School, BRAC University, Bangladesh

    2McCann and Partners, Faraday House, Terra Nova Way, Penarth Marina, UK

    3Department of Design and Engineering, Faculty of Science and Technology, Bournemouth University, UK

    *Corresponding author:Jason Knight, School of Mechanical and Design Engineering, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth PO1 3DJ, UK

Submission: vPublished: September 29, 202

DOI: 10.31031/TTEFT.2022.07.000659

ISSN: 2578-0271
Volume7 Issue2

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An investigation of the behaviour of Nylon and Polyester textiles subjected to wind loading was undertaken in an experimental study. Variable parameters of wind speed, incidence and excess length of the textiles were studied. As expected, increasing wind speeds and amount of slackness led to higher deflections above 4 degrees incidence. Below this angle large instabilities are found. Polyester with a higher air permeability, experienced greater levels of deflection at low slackness when compared to the Nylon. Only small differences in deflection were found between the textiles when using higher slackness ratios.

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