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Written by a distinguished editor and an international team of experts, Textiles for Sport explores technical developments and trends in the sports clothing industry. This book discusses the current sportswear market, analyzing current design, material requirement, and functional footwear. It outlines innovative fabrics including high-performance and high-functional fibers, smart and intelligent textiles, and coated and laminated textiles. It examines the need for comfort in sportswear and its role in performance. This text also considers the issue of protection and offers specific applications with case studies of textile composites, textiles in sailing, and textile use in sports shoes.

• Contributor contact detailsp. xi
• Introductionp. 1
• Overviewp. 1
• Innovations in fibres and textile materials for sportswearp. 2
• Design considerations in sportswear/footwearp. 5
• Sportswear and comfortp. 6
• Sportswear and protection from injuryp. 7
• The sportswear and sports footwear industryp. 7
• About the bookp. 8
• Current sportswear market
• Market overviewp. 15
• Introductionp. 15
• Think of a sport, think of a textilep. 18
• The future is nowp. 19
• The capacity of the marketp. 20
• Future market trendsp. 21
• The market potential in Chinap. 23
• Notesp. 23
• Key trends in sportswear designp. 25
• Introductionp. 25
• First layer: from second skin to power skinp. 26
• The evolution of layeringp. 33
• External influencesp. 38
• Future trendsp. 41
• Bibliographyp. 43
• Notesp. 43
• Material requirements for the design of performance sportswearp. 44
• Introductionp. 44
• Identifying the needs of the end-user: developments in sport-specific clothing from postwar to the present dayp. 45
• The design development process: the application of technical textiles in performance sportswearp. 54
• Emerging trendsp. 64
• Further information and advicep. 67
• Acknowledgementp. 68
• Referencesp. 68
• Functional sport footwearp. 70
• Introductionp. 70
• Functional design of sport footwearp. 71
• Functional fit of sport footwearp. 74
• Functional materials and components in sport footwearp. 80
• Future trends in functional footwearp. 83
• Referencesp. 84
• Innovative fibres and fabrics in sport
• High-performance and high-functional fibres and textilesp. 89
• Introductionp. 89
• Fibre materialsp. 90
• High-performance fibresp. 93
• Shape and dimensions of fibres and final properties in end productp. 100
• Textile formations and their special advantagesp. 103
• High-functional fibres and textilesp. 108
• Future trendsp. 115
• Sources of further informationp. 119
• Smart and intelligent textiles and fibresp. 120
• Introductionp. 120
• Smart textile materialsp. 121
• Smart clothing solutionsp. 127
• Wearable technologyp. 129
• Other smart textile applications in sportsp. 131
• Future trendsp. 131
• Referencesp. 132
• Coated and laminated textiles in sportswearp. 134
• Introductionp. 134
• Sports products from coated and laminated fabricsp. 135
• Base fabrics and fabric preparationp. 139
• Polymer or resin compounding, laboratory work and pilot coatingp. 142
• Coating methodsp. 143
• Laminationp. 151
• Testing of coated and laminated fabrics and quality assurancep. 158
• Environmental aspectsp. 163
• Future considerationsp. 167
• Sources of further informationp. 169
• Further readingp. 170
• Referencesp. 170
• Sportswear and comfort
• Physiological comfort of sportswearp. 177
• Introductionp. 177
• Aspects of wear comfortp. 177
• Measurement of physiological comfortp. 178
• Applicationsp. 183
• Conclusionsp. 200
• Future trendsp. 200
• Further information and readingp. 201
• Acknowledgmentp. 201
• Referencesp. 202
• Elastic textilesp. 204
• Introductionp. 204
• Freedom of movementp. 205
• Enhanced performancep. 213
• Performance, recovery and wellbeingp. 225
• Conclusionp. 227
• Acknowledgementsp. 230
• Notes and referencesp. 230
• Protection
• Is protection part of the game? Protection against impact using clothing and personal equipmentp. 233
• Introductionp. 233
• Analysis of injury sustained during sporting activitiesp. 234
• Impact protection provided through protective clothing and equipmentp. 239
• Effects of protective clothing and equipment on human performancep. 246
• Guidelines, codes of practice, standardsp. 247
• Discussion and further developmentsp. 254
• Acknowledgementsp. 255
• Referencesp. 255
• Protection against coldp. 262
• Introductionp. 262
• The cold environmentp. 262
• Energy metabolism, heat production and physical workp. 265
• The human heat balance equationp. 266
• Requirements for protectionp. 267
• Measurements of clothing performancep. 269
• Performance of clothing for cold protectionp. 271
• Specific materials and textiles for cold protectionp. 278
• Clothing for sportsp. 281
• Sources of further informationp. 284
• Referencesp. 285
• Water resistance and water vapour transferp. 287
• Introductionp. 287
• Water resistancep. 289
• Water vapour transferp. 292
• The condensation problem in waterproof breathable fabrics for sportswearp. 300
• Conclusionsp. 302
• Referencesp. 303
• Specific applications
• Textile composites in sports productsp. 309
• Introductionp. 309
• Materialsp. 310
• Designp. 312
• Production technologyp. 314
• Applicationsp. 315
• Conclusionp. 321
• Acknowledgmentsp. 321
• Referencesp. 321
• Textiles in sailingp. 323
• Introductionp. 323
• Polyester sailclothp. 325
• Spinnaker fabricsp. 331
• Sail design and the sail making processp. 334
• Laminated sailsp. 335
• Other textile-based productsp. 337
• Future trendsp. 337
• Sources of further informationp. 338
• Referencesp. 338
• Textile use in sport shoesp. 339
• Introductionp. 339
• Current use of textiles in sport shoesp. 341
• Wish list for future textile developmentsp. 346
• Referencesp. 350
• Indexp. 352