Materials, Weaving Parameters, and Tensile Responses of Woven Textiles

Fabrics have been recognized as a necessary component of daily life due to their involvement in garments, home textiles, and industrial textiles. The mechanical performance of textiles was considered essential to meet the end-user requirements for strength and durability. The purpose of this work was to provide an overview of the textile structures and tensile strengths of woven textiles. Different types of textile structures, depending on the weaving methods (woven, braided, knitted, non-woven) and the most common architectures of woven fabrics (plain weave, twill and sateen), were presented. Common materials constituting the textiles’ structures and a comparison in terms of the density, Young’s modulus and tensile strength between natural (plant-based, animal-based, and mineral-based) and synthetic fibers were reported. The mechanical properties of woven textiles were presented for neat and coated textiles, primarily in terms of the tensile strength. Depending on the cases, typical regions in the load–displacement curve (i.e., crimp, elastic, non-linear failure, thread fracture) were highlighted. The impact of the architecture, yarn distance and size, and yarn twisting on the tensile strength of woven fabrics was then illustrated.