Electromechanical analysis of textile structures designed for wearable sensors

Author

Safarova, Veronika ; Malachova, Kveta ; Militky, Jiri

Author_Institution

Fac. of Textile Eng., Tech. Univ. of Liberec, Liberec, Czech Republic

fYear

2014

fDate

3-5 Dec. 2014

Firstpage

416

Lastpage

422

Abstract

This paper reports electromechanical analysis of basic conductive textile structures designed for wearable sensors. Conductive textile structures usually exhibit two types of resistance: length resistance and contact resistance. Firstly electrical and mechanical properties of unstressed conductive yarn were investigated under practical use conditions. After that three experiments were conducted to examine resistance of single conductive yarn, two overlapped yarns and chain under unidirectional extensile forces.

Keywords

conducting materials; contact resistance; electromechanical effects; mechanical properties; sensors; textiles; yarn; chain; conductive textile structures; contact resistance; electrical properties; length resistance; mechanical properties; overlapped yarns; single conductive yarn; textile structures electromechanical analysis; unidirectional extensile forces; unstressed conductive yarn; wearable sensors; Clamps; Contact resistance; Electrical resistance measurement; Force; Resistance; Yarn; electrical resistance; electrically conductive yarns; textile structures; wearable sensors;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Mechatronics - Mechatronika (ME), 2014 16th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Brno

Print_ISBN

978-80-214-4817-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MECHATRONIKA.2014.7018294

Filename

7018294