With sleek lines, reversible garments and lightweight textiles, sportswear really has the opportunity to make sustainability chic.
Technical textiles used in lightweight tensile fabric structures are inherently highly flexible, which makes these materials very suited to, for instance, make lightweight adaptable façade or roof systems.
Chiffon, in textiles, lightweight, sheer fabric of plain weave, usually of silk or one of the synthetic fibres.
The integration of lightweight technical textiles offers great possibilities for these kinematic structures, due to their inherently high flexibility.
One possibility is lightweight multifunctional textiles for smart clothing that integrate medical sensors, antennas, and other devices, and can survive the stress of folding and resist corrosion in the washing machine.
Finding the plane shape of the double curved surfaces is a well-known challenge for every design engineer dealing with either fiber reinforced plastics lightweight designs or textile architectural membranes.
The United States will restrict imports of a lightweight polyester fabric, saying the fabric was actually being shipped from South Korea through Japan in violation of textile agreements.
Pasquali envisions washable electronic textiles, lightweight wiring for planes, and eventually, more efficient wires for the electrical grid.
Carbon fibre and textile reinforced lightweight materials with selected magnesium alloy matrices have been strongly considered nowadays for lightweight applications under complex dynamic and static operating loads, e.g. in automotive engineering.
There are many references in the literature concerning development and investigation of electromagnetic shielding lightweight flexible materials especially textile based with different electrically conductive additives.
Tyr's new AP12 Speedsuit series combines turbo compression — which provides the swimmer with a tighter core and better body positioning while reducing lactic-acid buildup in the muscles — with a new lightweight, hydrophobic micro-filament textile that repels water and decreases drag.
