Protective textiles
Authors: Benny malengier , Ziyuan Li , Dries Reynders , Simona Vasile , Lieva Van Langenhove
While sporting, muscles, tendons and the body in general come under extreme loads which may lead to wrong movements and injuries which impact the performance or lead to mandatory rest. As athletes often wear compression garments, we investigate how reinforcement structures such as elastic bands, yarns or fabric strips with a given pretension, or rigid structures can be added to compression garments to prevent incorrect sport movements. This paper discusses how an existing simulation tool (DySiFil) can be adapted to be able to extract supportive forces and pressures and validates the findings for the case of overextension of the fingers and the thumb.
Keywords: dynamic yarn simulation, DySiFil, reinforcement band, thumb guard
How to Cite: malengier, B. , Li, Z. , Reynders, D. , Vasile, S. & Van Langenhove, L. (2019) “4B2_0121_ MODELING REINFORCEMENT STRUCTURES IN TEXTILE AIMED AT BIOMECHANICAL PURPOSES”, Proceedings of the 19th World Textile Conference - Autex 2019.(0).