Improvement of Fabric Weave Form Simulation Based on the Characteristics of Yarn

抄録

The prediction of the inner structure and physical properties of textile products is very important for making the Kansei products with good performance. Then it becomes necessary to construct the models of the textile structure by suitable computer simulation. For the simulations, differently from the conventional methods, we have devised a method based on the imitation of an actual operation of the loom. This textile structure model is made by interlacing warps and wefts. This yarn model is based on Breen's particle model. However, there occurs a problem that the outermost yarns of the textile are curved. In this paper, in order to solve this problem, we propose an improved simulation method that imposes a continuity condition on the textile structure model. Also, we demonstrate the effectiveness of the method by showing the improved simulation results for several models of fabrics, in which we have confirmed that the simulation has successfully obtained the unit texture of textile models.