INVESTIGATION OF MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF FABRICS WOVEN WITH TENCEL/ COTTON BLEND YARNS

Year 2019, Volume: 29 Issue: 2, 162 - 170, 30.06.2019

Sibel Şardağ

https://doi.org/10.32710/tekstilvekonfeksiyon.503392

Cited By: 3

Abstract

This study aims to investigate mechanical properties
of woven fabrics made from 100 % Tencel, combed cotton yarns and Tencel-cotton
blended yarns with different blend ratios. For this purpose, the tensile
properties, tearing strength, abrasion resistance, bending rigidity, drapability and wrinkle resistant properties
of woven fabrics made from different
ratios of Tencel and cotton yarns were tested. All the tests were carried out
according to the standards, and the results obtained were assessed by means of
SPSS statistical analysis program. The analyses of variance were carried out at
5% (0.05) level of significance.

The results
of the study show that the effects of the proportion of the Tencel fibres in
the Tencel/cotton blended yarns on the tensile properties, tearing strength,
abrasion resistance, bending rigidity and drape coefficient of woven
fabrics are of statistical significance, and it was found that the tensile
properties, tearing strength and drapability properties were observed to be improve
with the increase of Tencel fibre proportion in the blend.

Keywords

Tencel, yarn

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