Bending and Recovery Properties of Wool Plain-Knitted Fabrics

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In this paper an experimental study is reported of the pure bending and recovering properties of wool plain-knitted fabrics for bending in the two principal directions of the fabric. The mechanisms of fabric bending were found to be relatively complex and were studied from both a geometrical and rheological point of view. Several parameters were required to specify completely the fabric hysteresis in bending. The variation of these parameters with fabric tightness factor was noted and the effects of fabric relaxation studied. A method for measuring the curling couple of an unrelaxed knitted fabric is presented.,

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