Investigation of influence of twill woven fabric patterns on fabric physical properties

ABSTRACTINVESTIGATION OF INFLUENCE OF TWILL WOVEN FABRICPATTERNS ON FABRIC PHYSICAL PROPERTIESTÜLÜCE, H. KübraM.Sc. in Textile Eng.Supervisor: Assist. Prof. Dr. Mehmet TOPALBEKİROĞLUJuly 2005Weaving has been used more widely than any other method of fabric constructionand gives a tremendous range of fabric character. Woven fabrics are composed oftwo yarn sets that make interlacings to form a woven fabric. By varying the sequenceof these interlacings many fabric structures can be obtained. Each of these structuresare called as ?weave patterns?. There are three main weave patterns for wovenfabrics. These are plain, twill, satin. There are many derivatives of these fundamentalpatterns. Different fabric weaves differentiate the structure of fabrics and thesedifferent structural properties of fabrics will cause the fabrics to behave differentlyfrom each other. In this point of view fabric pattern must be evaluated not only as anappearance property but also a very important structure parameter indeed.In this thesis work the influence of weave patterns on fabric properties such as yarncrimp, fabric weight, fabric thickness, breaking strength and elongation, abrasionresistance, pilling resistance, dimensional stability properties for twill weaves wereinvestigated. The satin and plain weave derivatives are included in this experimentalstudy additionally. Analyses of variance (ANOVA) was performed in order tounderstand the statistical importance of weave type on fabric properties and TukeyTables were used to determine the best and worst weave types. In addition to these,correlation analysis was done to examine the relationship between fabric propertiesfrom statistical approach. According to test results and statistical analysis it isobserved that weave type has an important effect on these mentioned properties.Key words: weave pattern, abrasion resistance, pilling resistance, dimensionalstability, breaking strength