Article ID: | iaor1992203 |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Start Page Number: | 529 |
End Page Number: | 536 |
Publication Date: | Aug 1991 |
Journal: | Operations Research Letters |
Authors: | Delfosse P., Messenguy S., Pirlot M. |
Drafting is an important process taking place at several stages of yarn manufacturing. The authors propose here a simulation model describing the interactions of individual fibres. An interesting theoretical feature of this work is that it reconciles two seemingly very different approaches: a stochastic description of the interactions between fibres and an analysis of friction forces formulated as a minimal cut problem in a graph.