Smart textile refers to intelligent textiles that can sense and react to environmental conditions or stimuli. There are three components: sensors that detect signals, actuators that act upon signals, and controlling units that produce outputs. Smart textiles are classified based on functionality into passive (sensing only), active (sensing and reacting), and very/ultra smart (sensing, reacting, and adapting). They have a variety of end uses including comfort, heat protection, medical, military, computing, fashion, aviation, and space research. Components can be incorporated at the fiber, yarn/fabric, or finishing level. The future of smart textiles includes tera/nano scales, complexity, cognition, and replacing traditional

1. Smart Textile
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2. Presented
By
Name: Shawan Roy
ID: 11122107023
Intake: 5th
Section: 01
B.Sc. In Textile Engineering, BUBT
To
Md. Mahabub Hasan
Lecturer,
Department of Textile Engineering,
BUBT

3. Smart textile
• Smart textiles means intelligent textiles.
• During the last decade, textiles have entered a new era, the one
of smart textiles.
• It can sense and react to environmental condition or stimuli.
• It can also sense and respond in a predetermined way.

4. Components
• There are three components
in smart textile material
– Sensor
• Sensors provide a nerve system
to detect signals.
– Actuator
• Actuators act upon the signals.
– Controlling Units
• Controlling Units produce an
appropriate output.

5. Classification
• There are three categories
depending on functional activity:
• Passive smart textile
– Using sensor only.
– Only sense the environment change.
• Active smart textile
– Using sensor and actuator.
– Sense and react with environmental
changing.
• Very or ultra smart textile
– Sensor, actuator and controlling unit
present in textile.
– Can sense, react and adapt
themselves to environment.

6. End Use
• Smart textile used for the
following broad categories:
– Comfort wear
– Heat protection
– Medical application
– Military application
– Computing textile
– Fashion
– Aviation
– Space research

7. Methods of making smart textile
• Components of smart textile
may be acting from fiber optics,
phase change material, shape
memory material etc.
• Those components from an
integrated part of textile
structure and can be
incorporated into the substrate
at any of the following levels.
– Fiber spinning level
– Yarn / Fabric formation level
– Finishing level

8. Sensor for recording
• Life shirt which are weaved
by special technique with
optical fiber.
• This optical fiber transmit
human physiological
parameter.
• Also intelligent shirt
monitors presence of
poisonous gases in the air
and protect human body from
it.

9. Sensor for recording
• In construction, sensor laid in
composite structures can be
used to:
– Monitor strain and temperature
throughout a composite
structure
– Detection of crack in composite
structure
– Monitor concrete structure.

10. What Lies Ahead?
• The range and variety of high performance textiles that have been developed
to meet present and future requirements are now considerable.
• They should include tera and nano scale magnitudes, complexity, cognition
and holism.
• Fibers are relentlessly replacing traditional materials in many more
applications. From super-absorbent diapers, to artificial organs, to
construction materials for moon-based space stations.
• Biological tissues and organs, like ears and noses, are grown from textile
scaffolds made from bio-degradable fibers.
• Integrated with nano-materials, textiles are imparted with very high energy
absorption capacity and other functions such as stain proofing, abrasion
resistance, light emission, etc.
• In future Smart textile have artificial intelligence brain.