The resistance of fibers to fracture due to fatigue in flexure is shown to correlate with the wear life of socks and can be used to explain other fabric abrasion resistance phenomena.When single fibers are flexed over a rounded metal bar, the log of the number of flexures to failure has been found to be approximately linearly related to the radius of
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