Investigation of Fabric Impact Behaviour and its Relationships with Mechanical Parameters and Hand Evaluation

Abstract

The investigation of fabrics impact behaviour is based on the registration of pendulum vibration process. To describe fabrics impact behaviour the values of impact and bounce angles of each stroke are used and the relationships of impact angles with uniaxial deformation are determined. The evaluation is performed on the basis of two groups of cotton fabric, treated by commercial stiffener. The concentration of stiffener in each group differed by 3 ml/l and by 7 ml/l, respectively. The qualified judge panel carried out subjective evaluation of textiles hand. Thus quality words such as “stretchability“ and “resiliency“ were used for textile hand evaluation. Relationships between subjective hand parameters and mechanical properties of the fabrics were determined. The results have shown that sufficiently close relationship exists between subjective assessment and impact behaviour of fabrics.