Predicting the pilling tendency of wool knits

Journal of the Textile Institute

Volumn 97, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 129-136

  Beltran, R ^a   Wang, L ^a   Wang, X ^a  

^a DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Artificial neural network; Knitted fabrics; Pilling prediction; Wool

Indexed keywords

FABRIC PROPERTY; FIBER PROPERTY; KNITTED FABRIC; NEURAL NETWORK; PILLING; PREDICTION; WOOL FABRIC; YARN PROPERTY;

EID: 33646227428     PISSN: 00405000     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1533/joti.2005.0135     Document Type: Article

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