Prediction of Air Permeability of Denim Fabrics Using Articifial Neural Networks
Esra AKGÜL Emel AYDOĞAN Yılmaz DELİCE
AbstractDenim is a popular fabric among all of the age groups because of its good usage performance and ability to provide convenience in adapting to changing trends in fashion. Apart from the fashion and general performance properties, thermo-physiological comfort properties such as air permeability are important for denim users. Fabric comfort depends on lots of factor such as fabric structure and the types of fibers. Air permeability is a one of the comfort properties of fabric is affected by many parameters of the fabric. A determination of the relationship between the fabric parameters and the air permeability is highly complex and difficult. For this reason, Artificial Neural Network model which has effective performance in very complex problems was used. In the present study, an artificial neural network has been used to predict air permeability amongst different denim production parameters. Finally, by comparison with the experimental results, the efficacy of the proposed model was verified.