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Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to provide an estimation of safe fabric length during automatic vertical feeding of fabrics into work stations.
Design/methodology/approach
The analysis is based on the application of the energy method and taking advantage of dimensionless groups.
Findings
Limits of the safe maximum force and length are obtained for a fabric of known properties and given friction coefficient between the fabric and supporting bed.
Originality/value
The paper demonstrates how to calculate the buckling force of a horizontally positioned fabric where the weight cannot be neglected and how to calculate the maximum length of such a fabric which can be pushed into a work station without buckling.
© Emerald Group Publishing Limited
2011
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