Research Areas

The main areas of scientific and research activities of the Institute of Architecture of Textiles are:

• design and modelling of textiles, their properties, structures, textures, external form,
• applications of raw materials and other textile materials to obtain the assumed properties and external form of textile products,
• technologies and techniques for mechanical and chemical modification of textiles as designer's tools for creating useful and attractive products,
• mathematical, physical, structural analysis and model making of textile objects,
• functional and cost analysis of textiles,
• digital image analysis of textiles,
• analysis and documentation of historical and archaeological textiles,
• computer graphics for museum purposes,
• transposition of artistic vision into an engineered, durable, useful textile product,
• improvement and application of creative engineering problem-solving techniques,
• application of CAD/CAM in textile design,
• nanotechnology (multifunctional textile finishing),
• biomaterials for medical applications,
• problems in the manufacture of polymer gel systems and composite systems for radiotherapy applications,
• research on colour measurement and its application to dye formulation,
• innovative multi-axial woven structures,
• automatic identification of textile intermediates and products,
• chemical treatment of textile products (pre-treatment, bleaching, dyeing, printing, apretizing) and conservation of textiles (washing process in aqueous solutions of detergents and chemical cleaning of textiles in solvents),
• design and modelling of fancy yarns, their properties and external form,
• physical and biophysical properties of clothing (modelling of microclimate under clothing packages, objectification of susceptibility to textile confectioning, etc.),
• fundamentals of garment design engineering (activities to improve the design process, construction of catalogues of garment nodes and functional groups),
• unconventional garment structures due to functional and confectioning characteristics,
• analysis of operating conditions of apparel machinery (modelling of technological efficiency in the chain of operation, optimization of parameters of the bonding process, study of operating conditions of sewing threads in the stitch formation zone of sewing machines, etc.),
• analysis and design of industrial garment manufacturing processes,
• basic problems of general and technical metrology,
• instrumentation of measurements; construction of unique electronic measuring equipment,
• information systems including both control and measurement systems, including fourth-generation virtual instruments,
• textronics as a synergistic combination of textile technology with advanced electronics and informatics, using elements of metrology and automation,
• identification of textile and apparel objects using advanced microprocessor-based measurement techniques,
• modelling of objects and their computer simulation studies verified by experiments conducted for cognition and control purposes,
• methodology of experimental research, especially planning of experiments and computer analysis of measurement results.