READ ME File For 'Mechanical Cyclic Twisting Test on Capacitive Touch and Proximity Sensing E-Textile Yarns'

Dataset DOI: 10.5258/SOTON/D0868

ReadMe Author: Olivia Olamide Ojuroye, University of Southampton

This dataset supports the thesis entitled 'Tailored Polydimethylsiloxane Circuit Encapsulation for Washable and Mechanically-Deformable Proximity and Touch Sensing Electronic Textiles for Wearables and Beyond'
AWARDED BY: Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences
DATE OF AWARD: 23/07/2019

DESCRIPTION OF THE DATA
This data for is one of two mechanical experiments completed in this PhD research to investigate the causation of failure due to washing PCF8883US capacitive touch and proximity sensing e-textile circuits. It uses a Nottingham Trent University with the Prowhite Twist Tester 1009 machine they edited to make a 180º rotary twist. The PDMS-encapsulated copper-polyimide PCF8883US bare die circuit was embedded into the core of a yarn for this experiment. Each e-yarn had a 5g counter-weight attached to one end to keep the e-yarn straight and taut during each twist whilst the other end was attached to the rotary twist arm. The experiment methodology was organised into a factor 10 set intervals of twists of increasing difficulty. This would measure the circuits’ robustness against twisting with time. Hence, the twisting test was divided into 25-twist interval stages of 10, 50, 100, 500 and 1000, and 5000 until the maximum total number of twists was recorded. After each 25-twist interval set, the resistance of the circuit would be measured.

The data in this set were collected at Nottingham Trent University at the Advanced Textile Research Group research area.

This dataset contains:
Experimental data that was published in chapter 6 of the thesis 'Tailored Polydimethylsiloxane Circuit Encapsulation for Washable and Mechanically-Deformable Proximity and Touch Sensing Electronic Textiles for Wearables and Beyond'


Date of data collection: 25/04/2018 

Information about geographic location of data collection: Nottingham Trent University , U.K.

Licence: Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International

Related projects/Funders:
This research was funded in the UK by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) via the project: Novel manufacturing methods for Functional Electronic TexTiles (FETT). Grant number: EP/M015149/1. 


Date that the file was created: April, 2019