Weave structure and loading capacity of portable textile mating

When vehicles drives under poor ground conditions,such as sandbeach,silt trapping of tracked or wheeled vehicles easily occurs,causing inconvenience for the vehicle trafficking,which is especially prominent in the military action. This study introduces a lightweight portable textile matting for soft soil pavements. This serves as temporary roadways and provides a rapid and enhanced mobility capacity during the expeditionary mission. The fabric structures of the textile mating are analyzed through the weave structure of the textile mating. Then,two different weave structures are designed and samples are fabricated to evaluate the influence of the structure on the working performance of the textile matting.The results show that the portable textile mating of special structure has high working performance. Four textile mattings of different weft densities are designed and samples are fabricated to evaluate the influence of the weft density of the fabric on the working performance of the textile matting. The results show that the working performance of the portable textile matting increases with the increase of its weft density.