HECOL370 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Knitted Fabric, Fabric Structure, Astm International
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Astm textile committee dissected overall sensations of hand into eight components each component can be subjectively rated or assessed on a scale of 1 to 5. Aatcc also developed a protocol to minimize variability in this subjective process speci ed conditions for preparing and handling fabric specimens by evaluators de ned adjectives that can be used to rate the eight components of hand. Assessing fabric hand - objectively some properties contributing to hand may be measured objectively these include: Kawabata formed a committee of experts - hand evaluation and standardization committee (hesc) members involved in manufacturing wool fabric for men"s suits committee agreed that subjective judgements of fabric involved: Four testing instruments developed by kawabata (cid:3) tensile and shear tester tensile test - specimen clamped and stretched to load of ~ 5n (tensile strength of bed sheets ~ Tensile(cid:3)results (merkel,(cid:3)1991,(cid:3)p. (cid:3)340) (cid:3) (cid:3) (cid:3) (cid:3) (cid:3) (cid:3) (cid:3) (cid:3) (cid:3) (cid:3)