Development of a platform for realistic garment drape simulation

An integrated platform for garment drape simulation system has been developed. In this system, garment patterns from conventional two-dimensional CAD systems can be assembled into a three-dimensional garment on a parametrically resizable realistic human body model. A fast and robust particle-based physical calculation engine has been developed for garment shape generation. Then a series of geometric and graphical techniques were applied to create realistic impressions on simulated garments. This system can be used as the rapid prototyping tool for garments in the future quick-response system.     

3D pattern construction and its application to tight-fitting garments for comfortable pressure sensation

Tight-fitting clothing pattern reflecting the accurate information of the 3D body shape has been one of the challenges for garment industry, however, fitting problems still exist. The objectives of the paper is to develop a 2D pattern which fits tightly to the 3D human scan data for sports suits that need comfort and function for maximum performance. In this study, the user graphic interface application software for the semi-automatic garment pattern generation has been implemented using the triangle simplification scheme together with 2D projections of free-falling of 3D surface polygons keeping the original 3D surface area preservation. A typical application of the developed pattern to the functional body suits is presented and verification of the proposed method is also provided.     

Fast garment drape simulation using geometrically constrained particle system

A simulation system for versatile garment drape has been developed. Using this system, the shape of a garment can be simulated in consideration of fabric physical properties as well as the interaction between fabrics and other objects. Each fabric piece in a garment is modeled using a geometrically constrained particle system and its behavior is calculated from an implicit numerical integration algorithm in a relatively short time. The system consists of three modules including a preprocessor for the preparation of fabric patterns and external objects, a postprocessor for the results of three-dimensional visualization, and a drape simulation engine. It can be used for the design process of textile goods, garments, furniture, or upholsteries.     

Garment pattern nesting using image analysis and three-dimensional simulation

A software system has been developed that designs garments made of figured fabrics and arranges the flat patterns on the fabric automatically. A series of image analysis techniques were used to find the repeat unit images of figured fabrics. Three-dimensional garment drape simulation was used to design garments using those repeat unit images as texture maps. Finally, a pattern nesting system was developed to arrange numerous flat garment patterns quickly keeping the continuity of the figures on them. This method could contribute to the increase of the reliability as well as the reduction of production cost by eliminating the unnecessary trial-and-error based processes.     

A new experimental study of influence of fabric permeability, clothing sizes, openings and wind on regional ventilation rates

In this study, a local ventilation rates (VR) measuring system based on stead-state method was developed. This system can measure the local VR of the right arm, the left arm, the chest and the back locations of the upper body garment simultaneously. The whole clothing VR can also be computed. To study the influence of fabric permeability, clothing sizes, hem opening, and wind on local VR of the right arm, the chest and the back of the working garments, 9 jackets with different sizes and fabric permeability (permeable, semi-permeable and impermeable) were made. The results showed that the local VR for each garment location were significantly different. The chest had the largest local VR. Clothing ventilation rates were not liner with garment sizes. Closing garment bottom decreased more air exchange for chest and back comparatively. Wind increased both local and whole VR significantly. But the impacts were different according to different locations.     

3D pattern development of tight-fitting dress for an asymmetrical female manikin

Tight-fitting clothing pattern reflecting the accurate information of the 3D body shape has been one of the challenges for garment industry especially for those who have an abnormal body shape. The objective of the paper is to develop the process of making a final 2D pattern from 3D scanned surface with minimum errors that fit tightly to an asymmetrical female manikin and secondly, to verify the proposed pattern development process from the free drawn design line on the specific 3D body. On the continuum of the previous methodology which provided the precise flattening algorithm on the local 3D surface, total pattern making process was investigated step by step. Final 2D pattern was constructed using non-extensible fabric and the accuracy of the pattern was investigated by shell-shell deviation of original 3D nude and clothed image. Area of each pattern block and corresponding 3D surface block was compared, and the detailed view of the triangle arrangements for the final pattern examined, confirming the topology of the concave and convex surface reflected correctly in the pattern. As results, the accuracy of the tight-fit dress pattern was satisfactory even for the asymmetrical female manikin with prominent curvature.     

Development of a Nondestructive Method for Sexing Live Adult Sternoplax souvorowiana (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae)

The darkling beetle, Sternoplax souvorowiana (Reitter) (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae), is flightless and lives in the Guerbantonggut desert in northwestern China. Its special eggshell structure, day-active habit, large body size, short life cycle, and ease of rearing under laboratory conditions make it an excellent model for advanced studies on desert adaptation. Determining the sex of this beetle is usually complicated by the lack of a discreet, externally visible gender-specific character. To date, dissection has been used for sex identification in this species, whereas a nondestructive means is needed for further studies of sexual dimorphism. Here, a new method based on the difference of the pigmentation pattern on the eighth tergite of each sex is described and illustrated. This method can be quickly learned, is nondestructive, is 100% accurate, and is fast enough for most applications in both the field and the laboratory. Experienced users in our laboratory routinely sex 8–10 beetles per minute.     

A theoretical investigation on the generation of strength in staple yarns

In this article, an attempt has been made to explain the failure mechanism of spun yarns. The mechanism includes the aspects of generation and distribution of forces on a fibre under the tensile loading of a yarn, the free body diagram of forces, the conditions for gripping and slipping of a fibre, and the initiation, propagation, and ultimate yarn rupture in its weakest link. A simple mathematical model for the tenacity of spun yarns has been proposed. The model is based on the translation of fibre bundle tenacity into the yarn tenacity.     

The NURBS human body modeling using local knot removal

These days consumers’ various demands are accelerating research on apparel manufacturing system including automatic measurement, pattern generation, and clothing simulation. Accordingly, methods of reconstructing human body from point-clouds measured using a three dimensional scanning device are required for apparel CAD system to support these functions. In particular, we present in this study a human body reconstruction method focused on two issues, which are the decision of the number of control point for each sectional curve with error bound and the local knot removal for reducing the unusual concentration of control points. The approximation of sectional curves with error bounds as an approximation criterion leads all sectional curves to their own particular shapes apart from the number of control points. In addition, the application of the local knot removal to construction of human body sectional curves reduces the unusual concentration of control points effectively. The results may be used to produce an apparel CAD system as an automatic pattern generation system and a clothing simulation system through the low level control of NUBS or NURBS.     

Surface pattern comparison among lateral body types flattening 3D figure data

This paper suggests basic information for the improvement of the fit of cloth patterns by lateral body type by comparing the surface patterns of the upper lateral body. The surface patterns were created by projecting three-dimensional figure data onto flattened patterns with a purpose-built software, Patternmaker2008. The resulting surface patterns were compared to explain the differences among lateral body types. Depending on the upper lateral body type, there were significant differences in the parameters related to neck width, lateral neck height, shoulder-dart angle, shoulder angle, back-center angle, and waist-dart ratio. These surface pattern parameters can provide a quantitative basis for the use of lateral shape features in the production of garment patterns and the improvement of upper lateral shape fit.     

Failure modes and mechanism of cleanroom garment

In order to provide a fundamental understanding of the cleanroom garment failure, we interviewed the manufacturers and the customers of the garment and studied its modes and mechanism under the simulated and real service conditions. The interviews revealed that the air-born particle was the most critical factor for the failure. The test showed that the abrasion between the fabrics influenced significantly on the air-born particle generation. As the garment was used repeatedly, the number of the air-born particles increased in the oscillating modes. The microscopic study explained the airborn particle generation mechanism.     

Multifunctional melt-mixed Ag/TiO2 nanocomposite PP fabrics: Water vapour permeability, UV resistance, UV protection and wear properties

This research deals with the investigating the effect of nanoparticles on the various properties of nanocomposite fabrics produced from melt spinning of various blend ratios of prepared masterbatch containing Ag/TiO₂ nanoparticles. The results revealed that the wear properties of modified fabrics improved as compared to pure fabrics with a trend justified considering modulus or crystallinity of fabrics with opposite effects. About 40 % UV protection enhancement has been obtained applying this kind of nanoparticles in the close relationship with the crimp contraction of textured yarns. A considerable improvement in the garment comfort has been recorded for nanocomposite sample containing 1 wt% nanoparticles. The lower permeability at low environment temperature and a higher at higher one, as compared to the pure sample, were obtained using this sample. It is highly interesting that these desirable changes in permeability can be achieved in the range of common environment temperatures (15–35 °C) being adapted to the human body requirements. The changing point is about 25 °C exactly meeting the body requirements by changing environment temperatures. A UV-induced solid state nanocomposite interaction increasing wear properties of UV-irradiated nanocomposite fabrics has been discovered.     

基于VB的SolidWorks排种盘建模二次开发

介绍了基于VB的SolidWorks机具零部件设计程序二次开发的基本原理和思路及零部件尺寸驱动和程序驱动2种参数化设计方法。以VB为开发工具、SolidWorks 2009为支撑软件、Excel 2003为后台数据库,介绍了排种盘参数化建模的设计过程并实现了排种盘的自动化生成。研究结果表明,该方法不仅提高了排种盘的设计效率,而且也为其他典型机械零件参数化设计提供了参考。     

Simulation of the weave structural design of synthetic woven fabrics

This study surveys the basic procedure of data base system of the fabric structural design which can be linked with existing pattern design and garment design CAD systems. For this purpose, the theoretical and empirical equations related to the fabric structural design are analyzed and discussed with various fabric specimens. The fabric structural parameters such as weave density coefficient, cover factor and yarn density coefficient of various kinds of fabrics are calculated using the empirical equations. These calculated fabric structural parameters of many kinds of polyester and nylon fabrics are compared and discussed with weave pattern, and materials such as polyester and nylon. Furthermore the difference between fabric structural parameters calculated by empirical equations are analyzed with polyester and nylon fabrics as a basic study for data base system of the fabric structural design. Finally, the weave density coefficients of polyester and nylon fabrics were analysed and discussed with shrinkages of dyeing and finishing processes, and also surveyed according to the weaving company and weave structural parameters such as weave pattern and denier.     

基于生长模型的稻麦轮作生产管理决策支持系统研究

为建立一种具有时空适应性、适用于稻麦轮作生产的管理决策支持系统,运用系统分析原理和数学建模技术,构建了具有较强机理性和预测性的稻麦轮作生长模拟模型,并进一步结合气象生成模型与策略分析评价模型,以C#.net为编程语言,应用面向对象的程序设计与软件技术,建立了综合性的稻麦轮作生产管理决策支持系统.系统具有农田信息管理、专家咨询、动态模拟、方案评估、因苗预测和系统维护等功能,实现了模拟预测、决策支持和人机交互技术的有机耦合.系统的建立为稻麦轮作生产管理和策略制定提供了定量化的辅助决策工具.     

Adaptive modeling method for 3-D printing with various polymer materials

An adaptive modeling method has been developed to improve the accuracy of an FDM type 3-D printer especially when printing complex small objects. The thermal and flow properties of PLA, ABS, and HIPS were measured using various types of rheological analysis. The relationship between those results and dimensional errors were analyzed. From this relationship, calibration factors were calculated for correcting the error between virtual and actual models. Image processing software has been developed to measure the dimension of printed samples. A model generation software has been developed to generate calibrated models using adaptive modeling method. The efficiency of system was verified through statistical analysis on the difference between the models with and without calibration.     

电子舌在茶叶检测识别中的应用

随着人类对味觉机制研究的不断深入以及传感器技术、模式识别技术等的不断发展,电子舌作为一种模拟人类味觉系统的感官智能分析仪器得到了快速发展,其应用领域越来越广泛。文章介绍了电子舌的基本原理和组成,综述了电子舌在茶叶种类区分、呈味物质检测、品质等级评定等方面的应用,总结了电子舌在茶叶应用中存在的问题,并展望了其未来的发展方向,以供深入研究参考。     

Automatic color separating system for printed fabric using the self-organizing map network approach

We can only use color numbers, color values and design to describe the color pattern of printed fabrics, which is different from woven fabrics with yarn disposition and texture as pattern determinants. Since most printed fabrics contain many different patterns nowadays, we need more than words and simple methods to describe the color patterns. The complication in pattern identification has made the analysis and comparison difficult and will have to be conducted manually. The automatic computer color separating system for printed fabrics proposed in this paper uses unsupervised learning network to automatically separate printed colors. The system first uses color scanner to pick the image of the printed fabrics and stores it as digital image. Then, it uses wavelet transformation to minify the fabric image to reduce the calculation load of color separation and also reserve the printing structure and color distribution of the original image. It also uses LAB color model to acquire characteristic value of the colors and the Self-Organizing Map Network (SOMN) to conduct color separation. According to our experimental results, this system can rapidly and automatically complete color separation and identify repeating patterns for printed fabrics’ images.     

我国西南玉米杂种优势群及其杂优模式研究与应用的回顾

四川农业大学于上世纪80年代,提出直接从热带种质选育自交系与温带种质自交系杂交,将温、热带种质的优点结合到杂交一代的西南玉米育种新思路,从Suwan-1群体中成功选育了自交系S37(苏37),构建了"温带种质自交系×热带种质自交系"的杂优模式。在此基础上,不断总结西南玉米育种的成功经验,经过研究和发展,又提出将西南玉米育种用种质划分为Reid(瑞德)、Non-Reid(非瑞德)和Tropical(热带)3个类群,其两两组配,可构成"Reid×Non-Reid(浅丘、河谷组配模式)、Reid×Tropical和Non-Reid×Tropical(深丘、山区组配模式)"三角形杂优组配模式。本文系统回顾了我国西南玉米育种中热带种质利用、杂种优势群划分及杂优模式研究与应用的发展历程,并对今后的发展趋势进行分析。     

Wire frame representation of 3D moulded bra cup and its application to example-based design

Fabric or foam sheet moulding is an important manufacturing technique for the apparel industry, in particular for bra production. It is the most economical and convenient method to seamlessly form a garment part into a specified 3D shape. This paper proposes an example-based method for designing moulded bra cups. In this study, a total of 10 typical moulded bra cup specimens were scanned using the Steinbichler Comet white light scanner. Parameterization based remeshing and registration algorithm was used to characterize the 3D shapes of the convex surface of the scanned bra cups. Using an example-based method, virtual master moulds were constructed based on the 3D surfaces of the investigated bra cups after eliminating the style lines and size differences. Then a new bra cup design can be developed from the master mould, either by drawing the style lines in the virtual environment or using scissors to cut the moulded plastic shot along the desired style lines. Different sizes can also be made by grading the wire frame model in 3D manner. The present method will provide a scientific tool for the product development of new bra cups which was conventionally very time-consuming and ineffective.