{"id":202851,"date":"2024-12-31T06:27:52","date_gmt":"2024-12-31T12:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/the-science-behind-your-christmas-sweater-how-friction-shapes-the-form-of-knitted-fabrics"},"modified":"2024-12-31T06:27:52","modified_gmt":"2024-12-31T12:27:52","slug":"the-science-behind-your-christmas-sweater-how-friction-shapes-the-form-of-knitted-fabrics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/the-science-behind-your-christmas-sweater-how-friction-shapes-the-form-of-knitted-fabrics","title":{"rendered":"The science behind your Christmas sweater: How friction shapes the form of knitted fabrics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-science-behind-your-christmas-sweater-how-friction-shapes-the-form-of-knitted-fabrics3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A trio of physicists from the University of Rennes, Aoyama Gakuin University, and the University of Lyon have discovered, through experimentation, that it is friction between fibers that allows knitted fabrics to take on a given form. J\u00e9r\u00f4me Crassous, Samuel Poincloux, and Audrey Steinberger have attempted to understand the underlying mechanics involved in the forms of knitted garments. Their <a href=\"https:\/\/link.aps.org\/doi\/10.1103\/PhysRevLett.133.248201\" target=\"_blank\">paper<\/a> is published in Physical Review Letters.<\/p>\n<p>The research team noted that while many of the factors that are involved in intertwined fabrics have been studied to better understand their characteristics (such as why sweaters keep people warm despite the gaps between stitches), much less is known about the form garments made using such techniques can take.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more, they conducted experiments using a nylon yarn and a well-known Jersey knit stitch called the stockinette\u2014a technique that involves forming interlocked loops using knitting needles. They knitted a piece of <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/fabric\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">fabric<\/a> using 70\u00d770 stitches and attached it to a biaxial tensile machine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A trio of physicists from the University of Rennes, Aoyama Gakuin University, and the University of Lyon have discovered, through experimentation, that it is friction between fibers that allows knitted fabrics to take on a given form. J\u00e9r\u00f4me Crassous, Samuel Poincloux, and Audrey Steinberger have attempted to understand the underlying mechanics involved in the forms [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}