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Cleaning of textile materials
Published in Rajkishore Nayak, Saminathan Ratnapandian, Care and Maintenance of Textile Products Including Apparel and Protective Clothing, 2018
Rajkishore Nayak, Saminathan Ratnapandian
The protocol mentioned in AATCC 135 was unable to keep pace with the change in consumer choice. Hence, a set of guidelines was devised by the AATCC and published as a separate monograph in the AATCC technical manual. Monograph M6 from AATCC (the standardization of home laundry test conditions) provides a set of guidelines for laundering and drying for many types of garments or fabrics. ISO 6330 (textiles – domestic washing and drying procedures for textile testing) is the international standard similar to AATCC 135. This standard specifies protocols for fabrics, garments and other textiles that are home-laundered and dried. There are 10 and 11 different washing procedures for front-and top-loaders, respectively. In drying there are five processes ranging from line to tumble drying.
Testing and appraisal
Published in Michael Hann, Textile Design, 2020
The catch-all term ‘textile testing’ covers a multitude of tests aimed at establishing an accurate account of the physical (or mechanical) and chemical properties of textiles at the various stages of processing. Different countries have different established test standards for textile products for sale within their territories, and testing can establish whether these have been complied with. Sometimes testing is done between stages of the processing sequence, often to establish whether machinery has been set correctly or whether concentration of additives needs to be adjusted. Large, well-established, mills will often have in-house testing facilities. In addition, after delivery of fibres, these too should be checked to ensure that quality expectations and agreed specifications are adhered to. Therefore, it appears that raw materials and final products need to be tested, as does each stage of manufacture. Testing may also take place prior to agreement to purchase a consignment of textile products and will be designed to establish whether the products (fibres, yarns or cloths) being purchased are to the standards agreed or required. Textiles intended for one end use will have different requirements from textiles intended for another end use. Textiles destined for use in say ladies’ swimwear will have different requirements from cloths destined for use in domestic upholstery, for example; the former may need a resistance to swimming-pool chlorine and saltwater and may also need to have a high light fastness, whereas the latter may need to have good abrasion resistance as well as high flame-retardation characteristics.
Development and evaluation of pneumatic actuators for pediatric upper extremity rehabilitation devices
Published in The Journal of The Textile Institute, 2021
Bai Li, Huantian Cao, Ben Greenspan, Michele A. Lobo
Textile testing was performed using the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) International standards. Prior to testing, the samples were conditioned in an environmental chamber (Lunaire, Model No. CEO910-4, Thermal Product Solutions, New Columbia, PA, USA) at a temperature of 21°C and relative humidity of 65% in accordance with ASTM D1776 (Standard Practice for Conditioning and Testing Textiles).