Evaluating drape shape in woven fabrics

A search of the scientific literature for the period 1950-2013 retrieved 36 different drape indicators. Despite the large number of indicators currently available, the drape ratio (%DR) continues to be the most widely used, even though it has proved inadequate to explain drape shape. In order to ass...

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Published in:Journal of the Textile Institute 2017-03, Vol.108 (3), p.325-336
Main Authors: Carrera-Gallissà, E., Capdevila, X., Valldeperas, J.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Cluster analysis
Correlation analysis
Criteria
Drape
Drape indicators
Drape shape
Drapery industry
Enginyeria tèxtil
Fabric analysis
Fabricació
Fabrics
Factor analysis
Indicators
Innovacions tecnològiques
Meters
Searching
Teixits i tèxtils
Textile fabrics
Textiles
Woven fabrics
Woven textiles
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC
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Summary:A search of the scientific literature for the period 1950-2013 retrieved 36 different drape indicators. Despite the large number of indicators currently available, the drape ratio (%DR) continues to be the most widely used, even though it has proved inadequate to explain drape shape. In order to assess their actual performance, the 36 currently existing drape indicators were determined in a total of 37 commercial drapery, woolmaking, shirtmaking and lining woven fabrics spanning a wide range of composition, aerial weight and weave type using a digital Cusick drape meter. A correlation analysis between indicators, and subsequent suppression of duplicity and collinearity, revealed that seven were mutually correlated. A principal component analysis of the results revealed an underlying structure consisting of three common factors which allowed the indicators to be classified into three different groups according to drape intensity (a), severity (b) and shape symmetry and variability (c). Cluster analysis was additionally used to examine the results in graphical form and exposed three clusters coinciding with the three factors of the underlying structure. A criterion for distinguishing fabrics with an identical drape ratio in terms of drape shape based on sequential application of four of the seven initially selected indicators was developed and experimentally validated.
ISSN:0040-5000
1754-2340
DOI:10.1080/00405000.2016.1166804