Textile product serviceability / Robert S. Merkel.
Publication details: New York ; Toronto ; New York : Macmillan ; Collier Macmillan Canada ; Maxwell Macmillan International, c1991.Description: xii, 387 p. : ill. ; 30 cmISBN:- 002380565X
- 9780023805653
- 677.0287 23 MER
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Table of Contents
Part 1. Principles
Chapter 1. Quality: What is it and who wants it
Selection criteria for textile products
Poor quality and its costs
Approaches to evaluating product serviceability
Goals of laboratory testing
etc.
Chapter 2. Standard specifications
Developing a standard specification
Trade names and trademarks as quality indicators
Anatomy of a specification etc.
etc.
Chapter 3. Getting reliable test results
Evaluating reproducibility
The observer as a variable
Testing equipment as a variable
etc.
Chapter 4. Sampling and statistics
Sampling
Taking specimens
Averages
Variation in test results
Precision and bias
etc.
Chapter 5. Overview of textile testing
Fibers
Assemblies of fibers or filaments
Yarns
Fabrics
etc.
Part II. Fabric test methods
Chapter 6. Characterizing a fabric
Fabric construction
Fabric count
Fiber content-qualitative
Fiber content- quantitative
etc.
Chapter 7 Measures of fabric strength and elongation
Strength testing terminology and concepts
Tensile testing machines
Tensile tests
Bursting tests
etc.
Chapter 8. Abrasion and wear
Abrasion variables
Measures of abrasion
Abrasion tests and machines
Factors affecting abrasion resistance
etc.
Chapter 9. Effects of refurbishing on textiles and end products
Standardized home laundering
Standardized dry-cleaning
Standardized restoration
Evaluating appearance retention
etc.
Chapter 10. Colorfastness tests
Colorants and coloration
Colorfastness evaluation
Colorfastness tests for manufacturers
etc.
Chapter 11. Colorfastness tests for end use exposure conditions
Lightfastness
Lightfastness variables
Measuring exposure; expressing results
Exposure options
etc.
Chapter 12. Flammability
Textile flammability as a public issue
Flammability phenomena
Textile flammability
Chapter 13. Absorbency and Repellency
Basic principles
Water absorbency tests
Water resistance and repellency
etc.
Chapter 14. Comfort, Hand and drape
ASTM Terminology for fabric hand
Related standard test methods
Measurement of drape
Kawabata evaluation system
Appendices
by sk
Includes bibliographical references and index p. 381-387
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