C7.4 - Sensorized Woven Tapes and their Testing

Event

AMA Conferences 2017
2017-05-30 - 2017-06-01
Nürnberg, Germany

Band

Proceedings Sensor 2017

Chapter

C7 - Textile-based Sensors

Author(s)

K. Ullrich, W. Scheibner, A. Krahmer, H. Oschatz, M. Weiser, U. Möhring - Textile Research Institute Thuringia-Vogtland e. V., Greiz (Germany)

Pages

410 - 413

DOI

10.5162/sensor2017/C7.4

ISBN

978-3-9816876-4-4

Price

free

Abstract

Sensorizing of woven tapes is the starting point for many innovations when physical properties like force, pressure, temperature, shape change or moisture have to be supervised in medical textiles, wellness requisites, load bearing belts, buildings, and sporting goods. In order to produce textilebased sensors, fibres or bundles of fibres, ribbons and other textile substrates are furnished with coatings which can advantageously be tailored to any desired sensing capability. Hereby the textile material remains nearly unchanged and keeps up its textile typical behaviour. The sensorized area is free from non-textile components. The presented paper deals with textile sensors for the measurement of contact pressure, temperature, and moisture. For this reason sensorized threads are interwoven into tapes and connected with wires for the transmission of signals. Further on, woven tapes with sensing coatings and their applications are presented. A second part of this paper is dedicated to questions regarding the accessibility to evaluation units, the minimization of cross-sensitivities and environmental
influences as well as the reproducibility of sensor characteristics. Finally some application examples and testing methods for smart textiles are introduced.