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This book contains detailed knowledge about testing principles of fibre, yarn, and fabric characteristics, the tensile characteristics of materials and testing of fibrous-composites and technical textiles. It starts with an introduction to textile testing and further covers moisture in relation to textile materials, sampling techniques for textile materials and the basic applied statistics, fibre characteristics, fibre length, cotton fibre fineness and maturity characteristics. It also deals with the advanced characterisation of cotton fibre by using HVI and AFIS systems.
Features:
It covers the principles of the testing of textile and fibrous materials along with modern techniques for testing textile materials
It reviews all necessary topics related to fibre, yarn, fabric, technical textiles, and composite testing
It explores the tensile characteristics of textile materials and measurement principles
It discusses low-stress mechanical characteristics and transmission characteristics
It includes a large number of examples and exercises based on actual industrial conditions worldwide including solutions
This textbook is aimed at senior undergraduate students in textile testing and evaluation of textile materials.
Author Biography
Apurba Das is Professor in the Department of Textile and Fibre Engineering and Institute Chair Professor, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India. He has more than 25 years of teaching and research experience. He has guided many Ph.D., M. Tech., B. Tech. students and is presently guiding several students. He has published more than 300 research papers and edited/written several books/monographs and written many chapters in books. He has successfully completed more than 55 research projects from government funding agencies and carried out many consultancy projects from industries. He has developed several instruments for characterisation of textile materials and filed 17 patent applications. His main areas of teaching and research interest are evaluation of textile materials, clothing comfort, nonwovens, technical textiles, protective textiles, fibre reinforced composites, etc. He is the recipient of Teaching Excellence Award. He has international research collaborations with universities from different countries like, Germany, Poland, Hungary, Slovenia, Italy, Portugal, China, South Korea, UK, Hong Kong, Croatia and the like.
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