Modeling of shielding textiles

The impressive increase in electromagnetic fields and relative health concerns have pushed the industry to combine the well know textile production techniques with the need of shielding people and instruments. These new products create not few difficulties to the electromagnetic community for their complex structures that render the modelling extremely difficult. A software alternative to the semi-empirical methods used in industry seems to be a valid way. With this tool some of the most known typologies of shielding textiles have been analysed the differences in morphologies in such structures may lead to the best way of designing these artefacts. The validity of this software approach is confirmed by different sets of simulations and comparison with actual measurements.