Eda Acar

Ege University · Department of Textile Engineering

Purpose The textile industry harms the environment at every stage of production, from the acquisition of raw materials to the disposal of finished products. It is very important for the textile industry to adapt to the basic policies on environmental sensitivity and sustainability to keep up with the transformation in production processes and the r...

In this study, the mechanical, comfort and flame-retardant properties of different knitted fabric structures containing modacrylic fibers with different blend ratios were investigated. Single jersey, rib, pique, three-thread fleece and interlock fabrics were produced with modacrylic/cotton blended yarns and evaluated comparatively. In order to unde...

This study aims to determine the best fabric structure containing recycled fibre for a daily use summer t-shirt considering the physical and comfort properties through a multi-criteria decision making methodology. Herein, 12 cotton fabric and 12 polyester fabric structures contained different blend ratios of virgin fibre, recycled fibre and elastan...

Recycling and reusing of textile waste as a resource can be an important opportunity to reduce environmental pollution and make a great contribution to sustainable development of society. Recycling cotton waste makes it low-priced and high return value. This way it can be easily industrialized and commercialized to extend the life cycle of cellulos...

This study aimed to develop a vibro-haptics feedback based smart corset to stimulate humans to be in ideal posture by monitoring the spline in thoracic vertebrae of T5-T12 levels, and provide a vibro-tactile stimuli to human's skin at lumbar L3 level. A corset contains a microcomputer, sensors and an actuator was implemented on 12 participants for...

Embroidery is a form of embellishment obtained by processing the figures on various surfaces. It has been done as multi-needle and computer-aided since the 1990s. Embroidery practice is applied with the aim of improving the appearance of the product and separating the product from similar ones. The embroidery process has direct effect on the cost a...

Üreticilerin sürdürülebilir üretimi sağlaması, üretici ve tüketicilerde bu bilinci oluşturabilmek oldukça önemlidir. Müşteri-tedarikçi arasındaki bilgi paylaşımı ve ürünün hangi koşullarda üretildiğinin takip edilip değerlendirilmesi oldukça önemlidir. Bu çalışmada hazır giyim üzerine üretim yapan bir firmanın çalıştığı fason işletmeler seçilerek b...

The concept of sports is one of the most important areas that contribute to the economic and social development of countries by enabling them to be healthy individuals by affecting the mental, physical and spiritual structures of people positively. In line with the technological developments, as a result of the increase in the living standards of p...

With the development of garment manufacturing, huge amounts of garment production in short time has been possible; which led to an increase in the profitability of companies and meeting customer expectations. But in due course, with the increase of household income, customers started to ask for dressing different than other individuals instead of w...

Nowadays companies with wide range of variety of products and services are trying to withstand against the economic and social changes; since they are influenced by these changes intensively. Since the present markets in this complicated structure have to be shared by the companies jointly, strict and compelling competition occurs. In such an inten...

During the recent years, obesity is increased in societies due to the reasons such as increasing stressful life, working long hours at desks and unhealthy nutrition. Therefore, number of plus-size clothing consumers is rapidly increased due to the increasing obesity. The enterprises, which want to attract plus-size consumers' attention, increase an...

Because Radio Frequency Identification Technology (RFID) is an efficient system which is easily applicable nowadays, it has wide range of use and this use is increasing day by day. Hotels have become spaces that are visited by the people for various purposes such as relaxing, having holiday, enjoying the time and carrying out some organizations as...

TOPSIS (Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to Ideal Solution) and AHP (Analytic Hierarchy Process) are multi-criteria decision-making tools commonly seen in studies in recent years. The aim of this study is to evaluate performance of medium-sized apparel company considering indicators that affect the productivity. In accordance with this...

Apparel production quality is infl uenced depending upon machine, operator, material and process. Therefore, production is not possible with zero defect. The purpose is to prevent the possible defects by taking measures or to minimize them. In order to determine and remove the these possible defects during production stages, various engineering app...

Clothing comfort is defined as anatomic, physical and/or mechanic and psychological harmony of man with material. Wearing does not only affect the comfort of man but also his performance and effectiveness, too. Each material forming clothing is an important factor affecting the comfort. Lining fabrics as one of the functional part of the clothing a...

In today s competitive business environment companies are forced to make a difference with respect to their competitors, to bring the quality phenomenon forward based on customer satisfaction and to provide taking part o f the quality control applications on all production processes o f the product. On looking at suit production, it is seen that it...

The concept of sustainability has been well fitted to the aim of industrial applications for managing limited resources and producing with minimum harm to environment. From this aspect, importance of sustainable manufacturing and monitoring environmental impact has been increased rapidly for both researchers and decision makers. Therefore, there is...