The legacy and impact of the Zeppelins developments in defining fabrics as engineering materials

What is it about?

This paper is about the starting point of fabric mechanics, in another word the point where textile materials are defined as engineering materials. The paper has a time line from the first calculation of woven geometry to the well known paper of Peirce in 1937. The paper also studies in details the research of Haas in 1912, during the Zeppelin era, and puts it in its time line with the other research and highlights its significant contribution to the matter.

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Why is it important?

It has a detailed literature review of the calculation of the woven geometry and how it changed with time from the first calculation done by Ashenhurst to Peirce. But the most important contribute in this paper is the acknowledgement of Hass work in 1912 and its contribution to the fabric mechanics and comparing his geometrical model in details with Peirce 25 years later in 1937.