CTD 461 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: National Fire Protection Association, Federal Aviation Administration, U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission

• School: University of Alabama
• Department: Clothing, Textiles and Interior Design
• Course: CTD 461
• Professor: Ms.Davis

Document Summary

Reasons for testing: manufacturers ensure that materials, processes, and products meet requirements, retailers ensure that products they buy meet expectations for performance, size, fit, and consistency, companies assess material characteristics and performance and product quality. Ways of testing: laboratory testing (accelerated testing) quickly assess material and product characteristics and performance, assumption: material performance predicts product serviceability, evaluating characteristics or performance of materials using standard procedures in specialized facility. Characteristics of testing: controlled atmosphere, trained technicians, specialized equipment, specimens from cut or sample fabric piece, quick, research, performance testing, and product development, consumer complaints, forensic testing. Test method: definitive procedure for identification, measurement, and evaluation of one or more qualities, characteristics, or properties of material, product, system, or service that produces a test result, standard test methods: test methods approved by specific organizations. Getting reliable test results: two important concepts, accuracy: correctness, conformity to reality.