Negative Poisson’s Ratio Weft-knitted Fabrics

Textile Research Journal

Volumn 80, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 856-863

  Liu, Yanping ^a   Hu, Hong ^a   Lam, Jimmy K C ^a   Liu, Su ^a  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

auxetic; geometrical analysis; negative Poisson s ratio; weft knitting

Indexed keywords

KNIT FABRICS; POISSON RATIO;

AUXETIC; COMPUTERIZED FLAT KNITTING MACHINES; GEOMETRICAL ANALYSIS; MAIN STRUCTURE; NEGATIVE POISSON'S RATIOS; THEORETICAL CALCULATIONS; WEFT KNITTED FABRICS; WEFT KNITTING;

KNITTING MACHINERY;

FABRICATION; FLAT KNITTING; KNITTED FABRIC; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PREDICTION; PREDICTIVE MODEL; WEFT KNITTING;

EID: 77952927137     PISSN: 00405175     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0040517509349788     Document Type: Article

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