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Analysis and prediction of air permeability of woven barrier fabrics with respect to material, fabric construction and process parameters

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Air permeability is one of the important properties of conventional as well as technical fabrics such as protective garments, filters, and fabrics for airbags and parachutes. In case of surgical textiles, air permeability is an effective measure of thermo-physiological comfort. This study is aimed to analyze PES barrier fabrics and to develop correlation between permeability and influential material, construction and process parameters. Not only the individual effects of yarn, fabric and loom parameters but also the underlying complex interactions between fewer or several of these influencing factors exert significant influence on fabric porosity and permeability. Artificial neural network (ANN) is the suitable tool to map such complex input-output relationships, since a direct analytical solution is not possible. Feedforward neural network models were trained with combination of Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm and Bayesian regularization support incorporated in backpropagation. Based on the number of input variables, three ANN models were optimized. It was observed that the model which was trained with all selected inputs delivered promising results on test data, i.e., R2=0.985 and mean absolute error of 1.8%. To eliminate any doubt of overfitting, 10 % cross-validation was also performed for selected final model. Furthermore, to investigate the relative importance of input variables in the optimized ANN model, the rank analysis was also carried out. Research outcomes reveal that ANN can be used to tailor barrier fabric permeability depending on the requirements quickly without trials and error by adjusting loom, fabric and yarn parameters.

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  1. Institute of Textile Machinery and High Performance Material Technology, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, 01062, Germany

    Samander Ali Malik, Recep Türkay Kocaman, Thomas Gereke, Dilbar Aibibu & Chokri Cherif

  2. Department of Textile Engineering, Mehran University of Engineering & Technology, Jamshoro, 76062, Sindh, Pakistan

    Samander Ali Malik

  3. Textile Engineering Department, Gaziantep University, Gaziantep, 27310, Turkey

    Hatice Kübra Kaynak

  4. Textile Engineering Department, Çukurova University, Adana, 01330, Turkey

    Osman Babaarslan

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Malik, S.A., Kocaman, R.T., Kaynak, H.K. et al. Analysis and prediction of air permeability of woven barrier fabrics with respect to material, fabric construction and process parameters. Fibers Polym 18, 2005–2017 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12221-017-7241-5

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