- Industry: Textiles
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A very minute crack or opening in a material that frequently leads to the breaking or rupture of the material.
Industry:Textiles
The temperature at which a polymer freezes or melts.
Industry:Textiles
All the processes through which fabric is passed after bleaching, dyeing, or printing in preparation for the market or use. Finishing includes such operations as heat-setting, napping, embossing, pressing, calendering, and the application of chemicals that change the character of the fabric. The term finishing is also sometimes used to refer collectively to all processing operations above, including bleaching, dyeing, printing, etc.
Industry:Textiles
Fabric that is ready for the market, having passed through the necessary finishing processes.
Industry:Textiles
Physical and chemical analysis of the lubricant applied to yarns to reduce friction and improve processibility.
Industry:Textiles
1. A relative measure of fiber size expressed in denier or tex for manufactured fibers. For cotton, fineness is expressed as the mean fiber weight in micrograms per inch. For wool, fineness is the mean fiber width or mean fiber diameter expressed in microns (to the nearest 0.001-millimeter). 2. For yarn fineness, see YARN NUMBER. 3. For fineness of knit fabrics, see GAUGE.
Industry:Textiles
1. A warp yarn of smaller diameter than that normally used in the fabric.
2. A term for a defect in silk warp yarn consisting of thin places that occur when all the filaments required to make up the full ply are not present. This condition is generally caused by poor reeling.
Industry:Textiles
In the fabrication of composites, the process of placing reinforcing fibers over a rotating form, (mandrel) to make the product shape. Prepreg fibers or dry fibers that are treated in a resin bath immediately prior to winding may be used. The wound form can be cured or consolidated after the fiber winding is complete to product specifications.
Industry:Textiles
A yarn composed of continuous filaments assembled with or without twist.
Industry:Textiles
