KNIT FABRIC SURFACE PROPERTY AND MOISTURE TRANSFER

This paper deals with the properties of the fabric such as surface compression energy, the thick,ness, surface hairness, compressional resilience and effect of these factors on the moisture transport.In the course of the present investigation, the possibility of expressing the relationship between thethickness and the pressure as a hyperbolic function is considered, and compressional resilience is al-so described by relative compression energy loss. The vapor resistance of fabric in terms of still air layer and mathematical model of vaportranspiration are elucidated and ten samples from various double knit fabrics made on the same ma-chine are tested in this study and a multivariate linear regression model is suggested. It is found thatthe thickness of fabric is the strongest factor in the mathematical model of vapor evaporation.