Measurement of Fabric Handle by Using a Cylindrical Hole of Sponge.

Document Type : Research Studies

Author

Associate Professor of Textile Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, El-Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt.

Abstract

In this work, a quantitative method for measuring fabric handle  based on changing the diameter of a cylindrical hole of sponge according to  fabric weight per unit area was tested. Also, a method of expressing objective test results relating to the handle of woven fabric has been developed.  This method Involves the area of polygon area. Also, a simple apparatus has  been designed and constructed for measuring coefficient of friction of fabrics  using the inclined plane method. therefore, fabric handle was assessed for  fourteen dressing fabrics by several methods such as fabric withdrawal force  (by the cylindrical ring method), (by the nozzle method), (by the spongy hole  method) and polygon area method. The experimental results show the high correlation between the measurement by the suggested methods and the other known  methods. Several empirical equations are fitted to the measured withdrawal  force values by the different methods using multiple regression analysis.  These empirical relationships are shown to predict the withdrawal force (fabric handle) accurately.  

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