THE SET-UP OF A LABORATORY TYPE COATING/LAMINATING UNIT AND THE OPTIMISATION OF LAMINATION PROCESS OF DENIM FABRICS

摘要

Lamination process is a finishing process applied to bring functionality, physical modification and change at appearance by combining two separate materials (fabric, polymer film layer or membrane). The process increased its popularity at denim industry especially in fabric-fabric lamination form in the last decade. Despite its market interest, lamination has setbacks in R&D studies for optimization to enhance the product performance due to large numbers of parameters and difficulties in producing samples. In this study, an adaptive laboratory type coating/laminating unit was developed as the first time in textile industry and the lamination of denim-denim fabric process has been optimized through statistical analysis and modelling studies by artificial neural network (ANN) and least-square support vector (LS-SVM) machine.