Principles of Woven Fabric Manufacturing

Weaving as a subject is an integral part of any textile engineering/technology program, the others being fibre manufacturing, yarn manufacturing and textile chemical processing. This book amalgamates both the compartments (preparatory processes and the loom mechanism) of weaving technology and presents a holistic picture. The machine descriptions are presented from the viewpoint of principles and no attempt has been made to make them exhaustive by incorporating various models or variants. The mathematical relations among various parameters have been derived starting from the first principles and each chapter concludes with solved numerical examples.

Dr. Abhijit Majumdar is currently an associate professor in textile engineering group at IIT, Delhi. He graduated from Calcutta University with first class first position in textile technology program. Subsequently, he acquired M.Tech degree in Textile Engineering from IIT Delhi and Ph.D in Production Management from Jadavpur University, Kolkata. He has worked in industries like Voltas Limited and Vardhman Group. He has published 45 research papers in international refereed journals. His research areas include protective textiles, soft computing applications, operations and production management. He is the associate editor of Journal of the Institution of Engineers (India) Series E (Chemical and Textile Engineering). He is in the panel of international editorial board of Romanian Textile and Leather Journal, Open Textile Journal (Bentham Open) and Journal of Textiles. He is life member of professional bodies like International Society of Multi-Criteria Decision Making, Global Institute of Flexible Management Systems, Association for Machines and Mechanisms, Indian Society of Technical Education, The Textile Association (India) and Institution of Engineers (India).