Fibers and Polymers

, Volume 13, Issue 8, pp 1094–1100 | Cite as

Predicting the tensile strength of polyester/cotton blended woven fabrics using feed forward back propagation artificial neural networks

  • Zulfiqar Ali Malik
  • Noman Haleem
  • Mumtaz Hasan Malik
  • Anwaruddin Tanwari
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Abstract

Tensile strength plays a vital role in determining the mechanical behavior of woven fabrics. In this study, two artificial neural networks have been designed to predict the warp and weft wise tensile strength of polyester cotton blended fabrics. Various process and material related parameters have been considered for selection of vital few input parameters that significantly affect fabric tensile strength. A total of 270 fabric samples are woven with varying constructions. Application of nonlinear modeling technique and appreciable volume of data sets for training, testing and validating both prediction models resulted in best fitting of data and minimization of prediction error. Sensitivity analysis has been carried out for both models to determine the contribution percentage of input parameters and evaluating the most impacting variable on fabric strength.

Keywords

Fabric strength Artificial neural network Sensitivity analysis Polyester cotton blend Modeling 
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© The Korean Fiber Society and Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2012

Authors and Affiliations

  • Zulfiqar Ali Malik
    • 1
  • Noman Haleem
    • 1
  • Mumtaz Hasan Malik
    • 1
  • Anwaruddin Tanwari
    • 2
  1. 1.Department of Yarn Manufacturing, Faculty of Engineering and TechnologyNational Textile UniversityFaisalabadPakistan
  2. 2.Department of Textile EngineeringMehran University of Engineering & TechnologyJamshoroPakistan

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