- Industry: Textiles
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The empirical factor T x E1/2 that describes the tenacity elongation exchange relationship for a large number of manufactured fiber systems.
Industry:Textiles
Registered trademark of Tencel, Inc. for their brand of cellulosic staple fiber classified as lyocell.
Industry:Textiles
The ratio of change in stress to change in strain derived from the tangent to any point on a stress-stain curve.
Industry:Textiles
The tensile stress when expressed as force per unit linear density of the unstrained specimen (e.g., grams-force per denier or newtons per tex).
Industry:Textiles
The temperature at which the refractive indexes of a material are equal in two perpendicular directions (longitudinally and transversely for a fiber).
Industry:Textiles
The force required to begin or to continue a tear in a fabric under specified conditions.
Industry:Textiles
Water-resistant fabric used to protect loads or materials from the elements. May be a coated fabric, a fabric with waterproof finish, or a fabric that is tightly constructed to prevent water penetration.
Industry:Textiles
The difference in distance between two points in a yarn as it lies in a fabric and the same two points after the yarn has been removed from the fabric and straightened under specified tension, expressed as a percentage of the straightened length. In this sense, take-up is contrasted to the crimp of a yarn in a fabric, which is expressed as a percentage of the distance between the two points in the yarn as it lies in the fabric. Take-up is generally used in connection with greige fabric.
Industry:Textiles
1. A narrow, woven fabric not over 8 inches in width. 2. In slide fasteners, a strip of material, along one edge of which the bead and scoops are attached, the bead sometimes being integral with the strip.
Industry:Textiles
The change in length of a filament, yarn, or cord caused by twisting, expressed as a percentage of the original (untwisted) length.
Industry:Textiles
