technical university of liberec - Technická univerzita v Liberci

Department of Textile Technologies1. Department profileIn its research work, the Department focuses on the modelingof spinning and weaving processes and systems, theiroptimization, structure modeling and properties of yarns,woven and knitted planar textiles; development of softwarefor prediction and optimization of the properties of yarn andfabrics including visualization; development of new typesof special textiles with higher added value for clothing andtechnical applications, ring spinning system modification anddevelopment of new yarn types; theory of textile unevennessand its application; development of new laboratory proceduresfor verification of the quality of non-standard textile properties.In terms of education, the Department specializes in two majorareas. One is the area of textile technologies including spinning,weaving and knitting, in which we focus on the issue oftechnologies, technological systems and processes, machineryand the theory and modeling of technological systems,processes and fiber formations. The other, no less importantarea, is of the structure and properties of textiles focused onrelations in the line of fiber-yarn-planar textiles – productiontechnology, design of textile properties and textile mechanics.2. History and presenceThe Textile Technologies Department origins date back tothe very beginning of establishment of the Faculty of TextileEngineering (1960), the oldest departments of which werethe Spinning and Finishing Department and Weaving andKnitting Department. From the very beginning, the activityof the departments was focused mainly on machine-orientedresearch in the area of mechanical technologies, which wasalso reflected in the structure of the study programs. In thefollowing years, the departments were transformed into theSpinning and Economics Department (1976-1986), TextileMaterials and Spinning Department (1986-1991), SpinningDepartment (1991-1997), Weaving Department (1974-1997), Knitting Department (1991-1997) and MechanicalTechnologies Department (1997-2005). In 1997, the TextileStructures Department was established, and this Departmentbrought another research direction, i.e. product-orientedresearch, the results of which were gradually incorporatedinto the education. We historically solved topics related to thetheory of carding and shortening spinning technologies, aswell as the theory and technology of rotor fine spinning andother unconventional fine spinning methods (prof. Ursíny) in6