Papers by Keyword: Electrical Behaviour

Abstract: In order to improve comfort of smart garment, rigid electronic boards can be replaced with textile circuits, which use conductive yarns. When one tries to improve wearing comfort, often the most problematic items turn to be connection points of the electronic circuitry. The aim of this research is to determine behaviour of conductive yarns after they have been sewn into textile material, as well as to determine their suitability for the intended applications. In order to determine the quality of a conductive connective seams resistance has been measured (in Ω) under the influence of various variable factors: type of yarn, length of stitch, number of layers, type of seam. Besides that seam durability tests were carried, which show resistance changes over time and after washing.

Abstract: Al-rich sludge produced from industrial anodising and surface treatment processes had been tested in the fabrication of alumina-based materials, by using plastic extrusion as shaping technique. Long rods were produced using a vacuum screw extruder, by a careful control of all relevant processing parameters. Then, thick discs were obtained by cutting dried selected rods, to be tested as probes for sintering-dependent electrical properties. The sintering process was followed by common dilatometric/thermal analyses and results were interrelated with the evolution of electrical conductivity, estimated by impedance spectroscopy technique (IS). Results show that sintering-dependent morphological evolution up to 1300°C strongly affects the electrical behaviour of samples, and as a consequence IS seems to be a useful method to follow the firing process.