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SUMMARY:Friction between people and fabrics - Dr David Cottenden\, CUED
DTSTART:20110121T140000Z
DTEND:20110121T150000Z
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CONTACT:Ms Helen Gardner
DESCRIPTION:Friction between people and fabric is both very important to e
 veryday comfort and surprisingly little researched. Apart from the obvious
  constant interaction with clothing\, friction between human skin and fabr
 ics (often nonwoven fabrics) is a big issue for hygiene and medical produc
 ts such as sanitary towels\, incontinence pads\, and wound dressings. The 
 ability to design such fabrics for given friction properties against skin 
 would be a substantial technical achievement\, and give any producer of hy
 giene / medical products a decided advantage in the marketplace.\n\n\nThe 
 work presented in this seminar (undertaken during a recent PhD project at 
 UCL) explored two aspects of the skin-fabric friction problem: what causes
  friction between skin and nonwoven fabric\; and how can a tense\, flexibl
 e fabric sheet sliding over a curved\, anatomical surface be understood? T
 hese have been addressed by a mixture of experimental and theoretical work
 . Though work continues on both aspects\, results have already had consequ
 ences in the lab\, and a major hygiene company is sponsoring further devel
 opment with the intention of using the fruits of this project to design im
 proved products.
LOCATION:Oatley Seminar Room\, Department of Engineering
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