Trend analysis and prediction of fabric tear performance testing processes based on the BLTT-FT model

Fabric tearing performance testing experiment is an important part of evaluating fabric durability. The aim of this paper is to solve the problem of real-time prediction of fabric tearing performance testing by effectively extracting key features from experimental data and constructing a prediction model applicable to the process of fabric tearing performance testing. In this study, the trend prediction model for the experimental process of fabric tear performance testing (BLTT-FT) based on the “bidirectional long- and short-term attention mechanism” is adopted. A prediction model combining the improved Bi-directional Long Short-Term Memory (BiLSTM) structure, Transformer encoding layer, and Temporal Convolutional Network (TCN) layer is proposed. While considering sequence information globally, the model captures the bidirectional dependence of time series, reduces model complexity through the TCN layer, and finally optimizes prediction accuracy via the fully connected layer and activation function, thus achieving multi-step prediction. Analysis of variance (ANOVA) indicates that, across multiple datasets constructed from fabrics with different elasticity grades, the model shows extremely significant differences (p