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TESTING AND QUALITY CONTROL OF TEXTILES AND APPARELS

LTPC 3003

Course Objectives To acquire Knowledge to the students about fibre, yarn and fabric testing instruments. To make the students to understand about the yarn properties such as counts, single yarn strength, lea strength and yarn twist and evenness characteristics. To understand the students about fabric properties such as handle, tensile strength, tearing strength, abrasion resistance, pilling resistance, draping and crease recovery angle. To create awareness to the students about seam properties, colour fastness test and dimensional stability of apparels.

UNIT- I 9 SAMPLING TECHNIQUES AND FIBRE TESTING: Definition random, biased sampling techniques for fibre, yarns and fabrics; standard RH and temperature for testing and mechanical processing. YARN TESTING: Direction of twist Twist Multipliers-Twists testers- Tension type - Take-up type Electronic twist tester ATIRA Direct type testers. Yarn Hairiness Testing- Methods-Optical- Singeing UNIT- II 9 YARN TESTING: Yarn Count Instruments used for determination of yarn count Analytical balance, Knowles balance, Beasley balance, Quadrant balance Electronic yarn count balance- Yarn Diameter. CLASSIFICATION OF VARIATION: Methods of measuring yarn evenness yarn appearance board ASTM standards Cutting and Weighing methods- Electronic Capacitance - Uster evenness tester Uster Standardsyarn faults -classification - Uster Classimatt. UNIT- III 9 FABRIC TESTING: Crimp Influence of Crimp on Fabric Properties- Shirley Crimp Tester - Fabric tensile strength tester - Ravelled Strip Method - Grab Methods; Elmendorf tearing strength tester, Ballistic Tester-Hydraulic bursting strength tester; Fabric abrasion resistance Handle-Serviceability assessment- Martindale abrasion tester, fabric pilling-ICI pillbox tester. UNIT-IV 9 FABRIC DRAPE: Fabric drape - Drape meter; Fabric Stiffness: Shirley stiffness tester; Fabric crease resistance and crease recovery tester. FABRIC PERMEABILITY: Terms in air permeability and water permeability - Shirley air permeability tester water permeability testers- Friction Measuring Instruments. UNIT-V 9 APPAREL TESTING: Seam strength testing Seam severance testing- Evaluation of interlining quality- Colour fastness testing washing, rubbing, light and perspiration- Apparel dimensional stability testing. TOTAL: 45 TEXT BOOKS 1. Grover E. G. and Hamby D. S., Handbook of Textile Testing and Quality Control , Wiley-b Eastern Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi, 1969 2. J. E. Booth, Principles of Textile Testing, CBS Publishers and Distributors, New Delhi, 1996 REFERENCES 1. Sundaram V., Handbook of Textile Testing, CTRL Publication, Bombay 2. BSI, BSI Handbooks, British Standard Institution, Manchester 3. BIS, BIS Handbooks, Bureau of Indian Standards, Delhi, 1989 4. Pradip V. Mehta, An Introduction to Quality control for the Apparel Industry ASQC Quality Press, Marcel Decker Inc., New York 1995 ______________________________________________________________________________________ Class Schedule : 05 Sessions per week, 50 Minutes Each No. of Internal Exams : 03 No. of Model Exam : 01