Selin Hanife Eryuruk

• PhD
• Professor (Full) at Istanbul Technical University

Nowadays, environmental protection and sustainability efforts are increasing to reduce environmental damage, especially considering denim production. The use of synthetic-based products in raw materials, dyes, and mordants in denim dyeing causes several environmental pollution problems. This study aims to identify the issues that affect the sustain...

Surgical gowns are used as protective clothing in operating room for medical personnel and patients to minimize the transmission of viruses and pathogens and are designed to serve as a barrier against non-sterile area and to reduce the risk of infections. In this study, since disposable gowns provide better barrier effect compared to reusable ones,...

Purpose Firefighters are exposed to high outdoor temperature and heat stress caused by metabolic activities during firefighting and should wear protective clothing to ensure their safety and health. Traditional firefighter protective suits are bulky and heavy garments with reduced thermal comfort properties since the fabric thickness and moisture b...

Under dynamic wear conditions, moisture management and heat transfer behaviour of clothing between the human body and its environment are very important attributes for comfort and performance. Especially considering heavy works like firefighting, it is important to analyse liquid moisture management and thermal comfort properties of fabrics that in...

Comfort properties of garments are influenced by fiber properties, fabric properties, and applied finishes. Denim garments are widely used apparels, and they are processed with different industrial finishing treatments. Finishing treatments and fabric weight have a great influence on the thermal comfort of denim fabrics. The aim of this paper was t...

Purpose The liquid water and water vapour transfer properties of fabrics play an important and decisive role in determining thermal comfort properties of clothing systems. The purpose of this paper is to analyse the effects of fabric composition (98 percent cotton–2 percent elastane and 100 percent cotton) and finishing treatments (rigid, resin, bl...

Purpose The main factors affecting consumers when selecting denim garments are aesthetic, appearance and fashion. Besides these factors, comfort and performance properties of the denim garments during usage are very important. The purpose of this paper is to determine the effects of different finishing processes on the performance properties of 10...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyse dynamic drape behaviour of eight different types of woollen fabrics each treated by three different finishing processes. Design/methodology/approach A new apparatus was used to evaluate the dynamic drape formation process of woollen fabrics during the rotation of the samples at different speed grad...

Samples were treated with quat-silane to achieve antimicrobial property for further designs to help bacteria resistant during use. In this study, the physical and mechanical properties of quat-silane treated cotton and cotton/elastane fabrics in comparison with untreated control samples were investigated. Results showed that a small significant dec...

Optimal comfort will enable the wearer to work efficiently over long periods of time and help to protect the body from imminent overheating. The thermal performance of fire fighters' protective clothing is primarily based on the thermophysical properties of the materials that are used to construct the clothing. In this study, we have used new fire...

Nonwoven fabrics are used for surgical gown applications due to their low cost, lightweight, durability, breathability, low hairiness and disposability. Multi-layered nonwovens with membranes are used in disposable surgical gowns to enhance protection against fluids, aerosol, toxins and microorganisms to meet the needs of surgical applications. In...

Thermal protective clothings are produced from multilayered textile materials. Fabric layers need to allow enough evaporation of perspiration, ventilation, and also thermal protection from fire. This study aimed to evaluate the effects of different fabric layers and their different combinations on the thermal properties of multilayered fabric sampl...

In this study, an electronic chest strap prototype was designed for measuring fitness level, performance optimization, mobility and fall detection. Knitting technology is used for production by using highly elastic nylon yarn. In order to evaluate comfort performance of the garment, yarn strength and elongation, air permeability, moisture managemen...

Sports garments with functional properties have become crucial as well as comfort properties since they improve the wearer performance. For this reason, sport vest and short having high elastic recovery with fall detection sensor, were designed and produced by using flat-bed knitting machine. Comfort properties of short and vest were tested with se...

Purpose Surgical gowns should be designed and produced using special techniques to provide barrier properties against potential risks during surgery and healthcare procedures. Ultrasonic welding is one of these methods used to produce surgical gowns with determined barrier properties. The purpose of this paper is to analyse bond strength and permea...

Purpose – Knitted fabrics containing elastane provide high level of comfort and ease of usage because of the elastic and drape properties over the body. Knitted fabrics respond to every movement of the body and return back to its original shape easily so they are used widely for apparel production. The most important properties required from the el...

Working environments of firefighters is very dangerous and consist of multiple threats. Fire protection can be achieved by wearing firefighters' clothing that is produced from multilayered textile materials. This layered structure prevents good ventilation, creates high heat stress to the wearers and reduces their working efficiency in fires. In th...

Purpose – Sleep is a vital and a basic activity of human life and it is a physiological need for human body. Sleep quality is directly influenced by the comfort conditions of sleep environment. The purpose of this paper is to define the role of textile materials utilized as bed fabrics on air and mass transfer from the human body. Design/methodol...

Working environments of firefighters is very dangerous and consist of multiple threats. Fire protection can be achieved by wearing firefighters' clothing that is produced from multilayered textile materials. This layered structure prevents good ventilation, creates high heat stress to the wearers and reduces their working efficiency in fires. In th...

Today we are faced with many environmental problems such as environmental degradation, water and air pollution, the generation of hazardous wastes, soil degradation, deforestation, climate change and loss of biodiversity due to population growth, high product consumption levels and uncontrolled production processes. The textile and clothing industr...

This study examined the effects of ultrasonic welding parameters on bond strength, seam thickness and seam stiffness, as well as water permeability. For study purpose, two types of four-layered fabrics with same compositions and different areal densities suitable for inner part of sport shoes were used. Two different types of seams, lapped and supe...

The tear strength of a woven fabric is very important, since it is more closely related to serviceability of the fabric. Tearing strength of the fabrics depend on the mobility of the yarn within the fabric structure. In this study, the tearing strength of four types of fabrics warp rib, weft rib, ripstop and plain weave were analysed, which were pr...

Stiffness is an important mechanical property that influences fabric handle, clothing appearance and fit. The circular bending stiffness, fabric formability and drapeability have high influence on fitting the cloths to human body. In this study, the comparison of circular bending stiffness and drape of wool fabrics were analyzed. Comparison of expe...

Forecasting is the science of predicting future outcomes and, it is used to determine the future targets of a business, product, or industry in business life. It is extremely important for a business to do proper forecasting before developing new products or product lines and prevents spending a lot of time and money for developing a product that f...

Garment fit on a body model is an important factor for designing comfortable, functional and well fitting garments. Nowadays the virtual prototyping of garments provides high potential for design, product development and marketing processes. Previous examinations of garment fit to the body in a real and virtual environment were merely focused on ex...

The relationship between fabric drape, low stress mechanical properties and finishing processes is relatively complex. This paper demonstrates the possibility of using artificial neural networks to identify the fabric drape of woollen fabrics treated with different dry finishing processes (stenter, decatising, superfinish, formula, KADE strong/weak...

Assembly lines are production systems developed to meet the requirements of mankind. The main aim is to produce high demand products within the shortest time limits, in the most productive and cheap way with high quality. Assembly line balancing problem can be considered as a difficult optimization problem and today still some heuristic methods are...

Today global firms in distant places are trying to find ways of controlling larger networks of production and distribution. The competitive nature of the field has increased dramatically in the retail sector in recent years. Today retailers must have some competitive strategies like having more price competitiveness, higher service levels as well a...

The appearance and hand of end-use fabrics has become more and more important when purchasing textile fabrics.The finishing parameters have complex influences on the large number of changes that occur in fabric properties during finishing processes. This study focused on the influences of different finishing parameters on mechanical and surface pro...

The properties of wool fabrics desired can only be achieved if appropriate finishing pro-cesses are carried out. Decatising is a part of wool finishing processes increasing the fab-ric surface properties of fabrics. In this study, high pressure decatising process was applied to semi-decatised woven wool fabrics. Surface properties (coefficient of f...

The textile and clothing sectors can be seen as a supply chain consisting of a number of discrete activities. The supply chain from sourcing raw materials to distribution and marketing must be well organized as an integrated production network.. Logistics is a very important strategy to gain competitive advantages like time, cost and customer satis...

The textile and clothing sectors can be seen as a supply chain consisting of a number of discrete activities. The supply chain from sourcing raw materials to distribution and marketing must be well organized as an integrated production network. Logistics is a very important strategy to gain competitive advantages like time, cost and customer satisf...

Assembly lines are production systems generated to meet the requirements of mankind that have been growing up day by day. The aims of these systems are producing products that have high production rates in the shortest time, with a most productive way, cheap and demanded quality. In this study, after giving general definitions and solution methods...

Today consumers are becoming more aware of the need to protect the environment, and companies use these terms to promote their goods or services with eco-labels. Environmentally friendly (also eco-friendly, nature friendly, and green) are terms used to refer to goods and services, laws, guidelines and policies claiming to inflict minimal or no harm...

Logistics is defined as a business planning framework for the management of material, service, information and capital flows. Logistics is a very important strategy to get competitive advantages like time, cost and customer satisfaction. The supply chain of the clothing sector has very distinctive processes. The supply chain from sourcing of raw ma...

Global expansion is the key to success for many firms and an effective logistics system is essential to the success of a global marketing effort. Developing a successful logistics strategy depends on the company's individual supply chain in terms of their major product services and competitive challenges. The clothing industry is one of the most co...

In recent years, the textile and clothing industry has suffered difficulties all over the world. The most successful advances lost their importance over time so that yesterday's competitive advantages became today's minimum standards. Although Turkey has had a reputation for high quality service and lower costs than most of its partners, the global...

In this study a heuristic assembly line balancing technique known as "Probabilistic Line Balancing Technique" developed by El-Sayed and Boucher is applied to solve multi-model assembly line balancing problem in a clothing company for two different models. Information about definitions and solution methods related to the assembly line balancing prob...

The clothing industry is one of the most competitive and highly value-added sectors in the world; however, in recent years the industry has suffered difficult times. Logistics is a very important strategy to gain competitive advantages like time, cost and customer satisfaction. This paper presents logistics as a strategic solution and investigates...

In this study, different amounts of lubricant were applied to air-jet polyester, polyester-spun, core-spun (poly/poly) and cotton ring sewing threads having the same final count. Mechanical and frictional properties of these sewing threads were measured. An evaluation was made in order to determine the effect of the amount of lubrication on yarn el...

In this article we present an external analysis of the Turkish clothing industry. Informa- tion on the companies was obtained by means of a questionnaire survey. Data were evaluated to see whether or not the Turkish clothing industry uti- lizes globalization market strategies, the important factors effective to implement these strategies, per- ceiv...

In this study, two heuristic assembly line balancing techniques known as the "Ranked Positional Weight Technique", developed by Helgeson and Birnie, and the "Probabilistic Line Balancing Technique", developed by El-Sayed and Boucher, were applied to solve the problem of multi-model assembly line balancing in a clothing company for two models. Infor...

Advances in production systems, innovative and technological products, communication and globalization have made business environments more complex and competitive. In the global market economy, the competitiveness of business systems has a vital importance to ensure development and grow wealth of the country. Textile and Clothing industry is one o...