**Meet the editor**

Professor Mukesh Kumar Singh is a textile technocrat and academician with expertise in the expansion of novel methods for developing engineered fabrics by making alterations to weaving machines. His expertise also includes the development and study of a specific field of technical textile, i.e., cosmetotextiles. He has wide experience in engineering high-value polyester multifilament

woven fabrics. Professor Singh obtained his PhD in Textile Engineering from the Department of Textile Technology, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India. He worked at Pasupati Spinning and Weaving Mills, Dharuhera Rewari Haryana, India, from 1992 to 1993, and then from 1995 to 1996 he worked first as a spinning assistant and later as a researcher at IIT Delhi under the research group of the late Professor Pushpa Bajaj and Professor Ashwani Kumar Agrawal from 1998 to 1999. Professor Singh joined the Government Central Textile Institute, Kanpur, as a lecturer in 1999. Professor Singh is included in the SCI Highly Cited in the Fields of Textile Technology and Textile Engineering with more than 40 papers. He wrote the book *Industrial Practices in Weaving Preparatory* by Woodhead Publications, 2014. He has contributed various book chapters on cosmetotextiles and photovoltaic textiles in books of international standards published by CRC Press and InTech Publications.

Contents

**Preface VII**

Artek Avci

**Manufacture 59**

and David Beale

Han-Yong Jeon

Chapter 1 **Introductory Chapter: Engineered Fabrics 1**

Chapter 2 **Denim Fabrics Woven with Dual Core-Spun Yarns 19**

Chapter 4 **Lace Braiding Machines for Composite Preform**

Chapter 3 **Acoustic Insulation Behavior of Composite Nonwoven 41** Dilan Canan Çelikel and Osman Babaarslan

Chapter 5 **Polymeric Synthetic Fabrics to Improve Stability of Ground Structure in Civil Engineering Circumstance 75**

Chapter 6 **Behavior of Reinforced Soil Wall Built with Fabrics 93**

Mario Riccio and Mauricio Ehrlich

Osman Babaarslan, Esin Sarioğlu, Halil İbrahim Çelik and Münevver

David Branscomb, Yang Shen, Vladimir Quinones, Royall Broughton

Mukesh Kumar Singh
