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Measuring the Flex Life of Conductive Yarns in Narrow Fabric
Due to constant advancements in materials research, conductive textile-based materials have been used increasingly in textile-based wearables. However, due to the rigidity of electronics or the need for their encapsulation, conductive textile materials, such as conductive yarns, tend to break faster...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10145945/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37421014 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/mi14040781 |
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author | Veske, Paula Bossuyt, Frederick Thielemans, Filip Vanfleteren, Jan |
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description | Due to constant advancements in materials research, conductive textile-based materials have been used increasingly in textile-based wearables. However, due to the rigidity of electronics or the need for their encapsulation, conductive textile materials, such as conductive yarns, tend to break faster around transition areas than other parts of e-textile systems. Thus, the current work aims to find the limits of two conductive yarns woven into a narrow fabric at the electronics encapsulation transition point. The tests consisted of repeated bending and mechanical stress, and were conducted using a testing machine built from off-the-shelf components. The electronics were encapsulated with an injection-moulded potting compound. In addition to identifying the most reliable conductive yarn and soft–rigid transition materials, the results examined the failure process during the bending tests, including continuous electrical measurements. |
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spelling | pubmed-101459452023-04-29 Measuring the Flex Life of Conductive Yarns in Narrow Fabric Veske, Paula Bossuyt, Frederick Thielemans, Filip Vanfleteren, Jan Micromachines (Basel) Article Due to constant advancements in materials research, conductive textile-based materials have been used increasingly in textile-based wearables. However, due to the rigidity of electronics or the need for their encapsulation, conductive textile materials, such as conductive yarns, tend to break faster around transition areas than other parts of e-textile systems. Thus, the current work aims to find the limits of two conductive yarns woven into a narrow fabric at the electronics encapsulation transition point. The tests consisted of repeated bending and mechanical stress, and were conducted using a testing machine built from off-the-shelf components. The electronics were encapsulated with an injection-moulded potting compound. In addition to identifying the most reliable conductive yarn and soft–rigid transition materials, the results examined the failure process during the bending tests, including continuous electrical measurements. MDPI 2023-03-30 /pmc/articles/PMC10145945/ /pubmed/37421014 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/mi14040781 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Veske, Paula Bossuyt, Frederick Thielemans, Filip Vanfleteren, Jan Measuring the Flex Life of Conductive Yarns in Narrow Fabric |
title | Measuring the Flex Life of Conductive Yarns in Narrow Fabric |
title_full | Measuring the Flex Life of Conductive Yarns in Narrow Fabric |
title_fullStr | Measuring the Flex Life of Conductive Yarns in Narrow Fabric |
title_full_unstemmed | Measuring the Flex Life of Conductive Yarns in Narrow Fabric |
title_short | Measuring the Flex Life of Conductive Yarns in Narrow Fabric |
title_sort | measuring the flex life of conductive yarns in narrow fabric |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10145945/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37421014 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/mi14040781 |
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