Journal
AUTEX RESEARCH JOURNAL
Volume 18, Issue 1, Pages 51-60Publisher
AUTEX
DOI: 10.1515/aut-2017-0011
Keywords
fabric touch tester; thickness; bending; standard method
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- Ministry of Education, Malaysia
- Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia
- ERANET-CORNET research project [IWT 140387]
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Fabric Touch Tester (FTT) is a relatively new device from SDL Atlas to determine touch properties of fabrics. It simultaneously measures 13 touch-related fabric physical properties in four modules that include bending and thickness measurements. This study aims to comparatively analyze the thickness and bending measurements made by the FTT and the common standard methods used in the textile industry. The results obtained with the FTT for 11 different fabrics were compared with that of standard methods. Despite the different measurement principle, a good correlation was found between the two methods used for the assessment of thickness and bending. As FTT is a new tool for textile comfort measurement and no standard yet exists, these findings are essential to determine the reliability of the measurements and how they relate to the well-established standard methods.
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