Authors: Xiao Liao Yi Li Junyan Hu Xinxing Wu Quanhai Li
Publish Date: 2014/07/29
Volume: 15, Issue: 7, Pages: 1548-1559
Abstract
Touch feels of textile materials are major factors related to the clothing comfort We could perceive touch feels through contacts between skin and fabrics Latest researches concluded there were four types of touch information including thermal proprioceptive cutaneous and irritant and pains There is a clear gap between current measurement methods on fabric touch feels and latest theoretical research outputs This report introduced a new characterization method of textile touch feels It simultaneously measured four categories of physical properties of textiles Fabric Touch Tester FTT the reported instrument included four modules as thermal compression bending and surface Measuring time of one complete test on this instrument only took about 5 minutes Output of FTT contained comprehensive descriptions on the physical properties of samples in both directions warp/wale and weft/course Experiment results showed that FTT could measure and distinguish these fabrics with good repeatability and reproducibility Correlation study between FTT results and subjective evaluation scores showed there were significant correlations between them Initial findings were concluded on the effect of thermal properties on other tactile perceptions as well as the interactions between different physical parameters
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