Tactile evaluation of down jacket fabric by the comprehensive handle evaluation system for fabrics and yarns

Down jacket fabric is greatly important in determining the quality of a down jacket. In order to enrich the research on fabric handle, subjective and objective evaluations were made for down jacket fabrics that were less studied. The comprehensive handle evaluation system for fabrics and yarns (CHES...

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Published inTextile research journal Vol. 91; no. 11-12; pp. 1227 - 1238
Main Authors Tian, Yuan, Sun, Yi, Du, Zhaoqun, Zheng, Dongming, Zou, Haochen, Liu, Zhenrui, Liu, Gui, Pan, Xingxing
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London, England SAGE Publications 01.06.2021
Sage Publications Ltd
Subjects
Evaluation
Fabrics
Mechanical properties
Principal components analysis
Smoothness
Softness
Stiffness
Tightness
Yarns
objective evaluation
down jacket
fabrics
handle evaluation
handle characteristics
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Summary:Down jacket fabric is greatly important in determining the quality of a down jacket. In order to enrich the research on fabric handle, subjective and objective evaluations were made for down jacket fabrics that were less studied. The comprehensive handle evaluation system for fabrics and yarns (CHES-FY) can be used to evaluate the tactile handle of the fabric by accurately and efficiently measuring the basic mechanical properties of the fabric. Therefore, the CHES-FY was used to link the objective evaluation with the subjective handle, so as to effectively estimate the total handle value of the down jacket fabric. Fifty-two kinds of down jacket fabrics were objectively tested through measuring 17 extracted parameters, and principal component analysis was adopted to establish the five main handle characteristics of fullness, softness, stiffness, smoothness, looseness and tightness to characterize basic style of the down jacket fabrics. The results showed that the subjective and objective results were in good agreement. These characteristics can be used as indicators to characterize fabric performance, and the principal component expression to characterize fabric handle can better predict the handle characteristics of down jacket fabrics. This also proves that the CHES-FY can quickly and accurately obtain the fabric handle value, and can also evaluate the fabric quality level.
ISSN:0040-5175
1746-7748
DOI:10.1177/0040517520977207