Journal of Textile Science & Engineering

Gnanavel P

Publications

• Research Article
  Volume Based Measurement of Fabric Drape using Surfer Software and Studies on Effect of Influencing Factors
  Author(s): Gnanavel P and Ananthakrishnan TGnanavel P and Ananthakrishnan T
  
  The human being needs more comfort on clothing than its color, design and appearance. Drape is one of the important factor influencing the aesthetics and comfort of fabrics. In the initial days fabric drape was measured by using Cusick’s drape meter. Due to technology development and up gradation several instruments were developed by many researchers. In this research work one such latest technology was used to measure fabric drape in three dimensional way using SURFER software. Here, the instrument used for measuring fabric drape was slightly modified from the Cusick Drape meter. The perforated circular disc was placed over the sample to measure the xyz coordinates of sample on radials range from 9.5cm to 14.5cm at each 5o intervals. The civil engineers use XYZ coordinates to measure the surface the of land profile (either hill or valley) using software. The same concep.. Read More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2165-8064.1000159

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