Braiding & narrow width fabrics
Braiding is more significant for industrial fabrics than consumer textiles and with its increasing applications, braiding is one of the major fabrication methods for composite reinforcement structures, say D Gopalakrishnan, Bhuvaneswari, V Ramakrishnan and T Sabarinath The limitations of the weaving, knitting and stitching processes include poor shear resistance, limited strength in the primary loading direction, and the inability to produce complex shaped parts. These shortcomings, as will be seen, are largely overcome with the adaptation of braiding. Braiding is a simple form of narrow fabric construction. It is done by intertwining of yarns in whatever…Read more …