One design demonstrated that with only a 7-percent increase
This is a team project that typically includes three to four members with topics that range dramatically within the Polyester Fabric Manufacturers textile industry.During the 2015-16 academic year, one team embarked on a journey to research, prototype and create a new woven layer for the fly fishing wader market sponsored by Patagonia Inc.
One design demonstrated that with only a 7-percent increase in weight, puncture resistance increased by more than 70 percent when compared to the heavyweight benchmark product.
After the first round of prototyping was complete, the students were able to reflect and improve and foresee any implications with the sample weaving process and the
construction design.Galphin@ patagonia.
In the second prototype, the team was able to weave exactly what it wanted, resulting in huge gains in the material properties with only a small addition of weight. Finally, the team created a new test method to give textile engineers a better idea of how fabrics will behave in the field — or stream, as the case may be.
The biggest impact of this newly developed test method is that it enables textile engineers to observe how lighter fabrics with fewer layers, lower denier and a specific weave design will respond to multiple types of puncture.
