Effect of Washing Cycles on Glued Conductive Joints Used on Stretchable Smart Textile Ribbons

The article presents a research focused on reliability testing of glued joints on conductive textile ribbons during the washing and drying cycles. For the experiment, the textile ribbons with electrically conductive silver coated copper threads were used. The SMD chip resistors were conductively connected onto the ribbons by UV curable non-conductive adhesive. The prepared samples were exposed to the 30 washing and drying cycles. The result shows that reliability of conductive joints after washing and drying is sufficient and these joints on ribbons can be recommended.