Experimental Investigation of Effects of Fabric Thickness, Loop Shape Factor, Fabric Tightness Factor and Aerial Weight on Air Permeability of Pique Cotton Knitted Fabric

Neway Seboka Debele¹

Section:Research Paper, Product Type: Journal-Paper
Vol.10 , Issue.3 , pp.36-40, Jun-2022

Online published on Jun 30, 2022

Copyright © Neway Seboka Debele . This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
 

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Abstract :
The present study tries to navigate the effects of fabric aerial weight, loop shape factor, tightness factor and thickness on air permeability of pique knitted fabric made with 100% cotton yarn. Samples used for experimentation are purchased from market. For assessing the factor effects statistical analysis is made using Design expert software and for computation (BBD) is followed. 30 experimental runs have been made and for point prediction of the response, a confidence level of 0.95 is used. Thus, a calculated correlation coefficient of 76.37% is found. The analysis proves fabric aerial weight, thickness and fabric tightness factor significantly affects air permeability of pique fabric made with 100% cotton yarn. Thus, the study shows fabric aerial weight, fabric thickness and tightness factor affect air permeability negatively but significantly.

Key-Words / Index Term :
Pique, fabric aerial weight, thickness, loop shape factor, tightness factor, air permeability, BBD

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