RESIN EMBEDDING MEDIA AND TECHNIQUES FOR INVESTIGATING 3D STRUCTURE OF WOVEN FABRICS

Year 2011, Volume: 21 Issue: 4, 381 - 385, 30.12.2011

Banu Özgen Keleş Hugh Gong

Abstract

Thin sectioning and microscopic investigation are widely applied methods in the structural analysis of textile materials. In this study,
several types of resin embedding media and methods were used in order to evaluate thin sectioning as means of determining the internal
structure of a woven fabric. However, various problems were encountered with these resin types, which resulted in distorted or incomplete
sections when the sample blocks were microtomed. Several solutions were introduced in order to overcome these problems occurred during
embedding and sectioning processes. It was observed that successfully microtomed slices of tight sett fabric samples were achieved
withultra-low viscosity Epoxy resin.

Keywords

Thin sectioning, Resin embedding, Woven fabric structure, Microtome

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