Manufactured fibers

Manufactured fibers

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Roller coating

Textiles; Manufactured fibers

In this method, a roller is used to apply the coating to the moving substrate fabric. Various roll configurations can be used.

Cross-flow quench

Textiles; Manufactured fibers

In cooling extruded polymer filaments, refers tocooling air directed from one side cross the path of the filaments. There maybe some type of suction on the opposite side to remove the heated air.

Compliance

Textiles; Manufactured fibers

The ability of a fibre to yield under stress; the ratio of the change in strain to the change in stress that produces it; the reciprocal of the textile modulus.

Cockled yarn

Textiles; Manufactured fibers

Spun yarn in which some fibres do not lie parallel to the other fibres but instead are curled and kinked, forming a rough and uneven surface on the yarn. The general cause is fibre overcut to the ...

Resistance to fading; i.e., the property of a dye to retain its colour when the dyed (or printed) textile material is exposed to conditions or agents such as light, perspiration, atmospheric gases, ...

Cyclic stress-strain

Textiles; Manufactured fibers

Repeated loading of a yarn on a tensile testing machine and the determination of the physical properties of the yarn during these cycles.

Coacervation

Textiles; Manufactured fibers

The collection of colloidal particles into droplets held together by electrostatic attraction. This term for the equilibrium state of colloidal systems was introduced in 1929.