Abstract:
Abstract: Recent development in textiles has led the researchers to a variety of fabrics manufacturing. These developments includes spacer fabrics, embroidered fabrics, embedded sensors in fabrics, ECG vest and the series goes on, so much so electronic components are also being knitted within fabrics. The present work is one such effort, where an arrangement of thermocouple based upon Seebeck Effect has been formulated. Thermocouples were embedded into the main knitted structure so as it is a part of the main structure. The knitted fabric was tested against a variation of temperature; also variation in the material of thermocouple was tested. Promising Test results are presented in this article. After performing the tests it is also known that certain combinations of knitting material may result into positive and negative temperature coefficients of the fabric.
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