Textile-Based Weft Knitted Strain Sensors: Effect of Fabric Parameters on Sensor Properties

The design and development of textile-based strain sensors has been a focus of research and many investigators have studied this subject. This paper presents a new textile-based strain sensor design and shows the effect of base fabric parameters on its sensing properties. Sensing fabric could be use...

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Published inSensors (Basel, Switzerland) Vol. 13; no. 8; pp. 11114 - 11127
Main Authors Atalay, Ozgur, Kennon, William, Husain, Muhammad
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Switzerland MDPI AG 21.08.2013
Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI)
Subjects
Carbon
conductive textiles
conductive yarn
contact area
contact pressure
Elastic Modulus
elastomeric yarn
Equipment Design
Equipment Failure Analysis
Manufacturing
Needlework
Sensors
strain sensor
Textiles
Textiles - analysis
Transducers
Yarn
yarn input tension
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Summary:The design and development of textile-based strain sensors has been a focus of research and many investigators have studied this subject. This paper presents a new textile-based strain sensor design and shows the effect of base fabric parameters on its sensing properties. Sensing fabric could be used to measure articulations of the human body in the real environment. The strain sensing fabric was produced by using electronic flat-bed knitting technology; the base fabric was produced with elastomeric yarns in an interlock arrangement and a conductive yarn was embedded in this substrate to create a series of single loop structures. Experimental results show that there is a strong relationship between base fabric parameters and sensor properties.
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ISSN:1424-8220
1424-8220
DOI:10.3390/s130811114