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GB/T 46729-2025Textiles - Intelligent textiles - Terminology and classification (English PDF)

纺织品智能纺织品术语和分类

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Issued by

State Administration for Market Regulation

Level / Type

National · Recommended

Issue date

October 31, 2025

Implementation date

May 1, 2026

Scope

GB/T 46729-2025 is the English-translated version of 纺织品智能纺织品术语和分类.

GB/T 46729-2025 is a Chinese national standard that defines terminology for intelligent textiles and sets out how they are classified. The document gives definitions of basic terms such as environment, intelligent (smart or interactive) textiles, textile system and electronic textiles.

It also defines several kinds of smart textile, including types that can be connected to or separated from the wearer, types that change colour in response to the environment and types that regulate temperature.

The classification is applicable to all types of smart textiles. Issued on 31 October 2025 and applicable from 1 May 2026, it gives manufacturers, buyers and researchers a shared vocabulary for describing products in this field.

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Document preview — GB/T 46729-2025

National Standard of the People's Republic of China

ICS: 59.080.01
Classification: W 04

Issued by: State Administration for Market Regulation

Foreword
1 Scope
2 Normative references
3 Terms and Definitions

Foreword

This document complies with the provisions of GB/T 1.1-2020 "Standardization Work Guidelines Part 1: Structure and Drafting Rules of Standardization Documents".

1 Scope

This document defines the terminology and definitions of smart textiles and provides a classification of smart textiles.

This document applies to all types of smart textiles.

2 Normative references

This document has no normative references.

3 Terms and Definitions

3.1 environment; surroundings

The context, objects, or conditions surrounding textile materials, textile products, or their users.

3.2 Intelligent textiles; smart textiles; interactive textiles

By applying technologies such as materials science, electronic information, sensing, and biomedicine to textiles, they can achieve reversible interactions with the environment.

Use functional textiles that can sense, respond to, and adapt to changes (stimuli) in the environment.

3.3 Textile system

Combination of textiles and non-woven components.

3.5 Electronic textiles

By embedding electronic components with sensing and communication functions into textiles, they can collect, analyze, and provide feedback on data, creating intelligent [technology/systems]. Textiles.

3.7 Colour-changing smart textile

Smart textiles that can change the absorption, transmission, or reflection of light in response to changes in the external environment, thus displaying different colors.

Note: Stimuli such as photochromism, thermochromism, pressure-induced color change, biochromism, and electrochromism.

3.8 Temperature-regulating smart textile

It can sense and respond to changes in ambient temperature, utilizing material phase changes, fluid temperature regulation technology, or electro-thermal energy conversion to control temperature. Smart textiles with temperature regulation.

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GB/T 46755-2025General technical requirements for intelligent textile products

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