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Pressure-point-garments: haptic stimulation of the body enabled through a fashionable 3D-textile interface

open access: yesCommunications in Development and Assembling of Textile Products, 2023
Developments in textile and fiber engineering have allowed the development of functional clothing such as protective wear, sportswear, and medical clothing.
Dominique Almendariz   +2 more
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Design and fabrication of anisotropic textile brace for exerting corrective forces on spinal curvature

open access: yesJournal of Industrial Textiles, 2022
This study focuses on the fabrication of an anisotropic textile brace that exerts corrective forces based on the three-point pressure system to treat scoliosis, which is a medical condition that involves deformity of the spine.
Queenie Fok   +3 more
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Smart Electronic Textile‐Based Wearable Supercapacitors

open access: yesAdvanced Science, 2022
Electronic textiles (e‐textiles) have drawn significant attention from the scientific and engineering community as lightweight and comfortable next‐generation wearable devices due to their ability to interface with the human body, and continuously ...
Md Rashedul Islam   +3 more
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Antibacterial Properties of Non-Modified Wool, Determined and Discussed in Relation to ISO 20645:2004 Standard

open access: yesMolecules, 2022
Wool is considered to possibly exhibit antibacterial properties due to the ability of wool clothing to reduce the build-up of odor, which arises from the microbial activity of skin microbiota.
Tomislav Ivankovic   +4 more
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Development of Wearable Sensing Suit for Monitoring Wrist Joint Motions and Deep Neural Network-based Calibration Method [PDF]

open access: yes한국정밀공학회지, 2020
A measurement of a users’ motion is widely attracting attention for a realization of robotic assistance in daily activities. The soft, wearable sensing suit enables the monitoring of outdoor activities, with high wearability and insensitivity to inertial
Junhwi Cho, Hyunkyu Park, Jung Kim
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Choreographed Soft Morphologies: exploring new ways of ideating soft architecture through material elasticity

open access: yesTemes de Disseny, 2018
This research aims to contribute to the current field of architectural design by offering evidence of how a collaborative and embodied approach to soft architecture can inform a new physical-digital design process.
Marina Castán, Daniel Suárez
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Bending reinforcement of reinforced concrete beams with alkali-resistant fiberglass textile-reinforced concrete with different surface treatments [PDF]

open access: yesRevista IBRACON de Estruturas e Materiais
Textile reinforced concrete emerges as an alternative for the strengthening of reinforced concrete structures. However, as a relatively new material, there is still no regulatory body or standardization that standardizes the manufacturing and application
Cleiton Ricardo Oestreich   +3 more
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Designing Predictive Tools for Personalized Functionalities in Knitted Performance Wear

open access: yesTemes de Disseny, 2019
Developments of advanced textile manufacturing techniques—such as 3D body-forming knitwear machinery—allows the production of almost finalized garments, which require little to no further production steps to finalize the garment.
Martijn ten Bhömer   +6 more
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Closed-loop neuromuscular electrical stimulation using feedforward-feedback control and textile electrodes to regulate grasp force in quadriplegia

open access: yesBioelectronic Medicine, 2019
Background Transcutaneous neuromuscular electrical stimulation is routinely used in physical rehabilitation and more recently in brain-computer interface applications for restoring movement in paralyzed limbs. Due to variable muscle responses to repeated
John Ciancibello   +7 more
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Interface Pressure-Friction Mechanics of Neonatal Mattress-Textile Combinations

open access: yesAdvances in Materials Science and Engineering
In neonatal and infant care, the contact of skin with mattress and textile covers is particularly critical for preventing soft tissue damage due to their fragile skin. Textile covers can modify biomechanical load transfer by jointly affecting compression
Tino A. Jucker   +2 more
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