Compression Properties of Woven Carpet Performance under Dynamic Loading

Abstract

Although carpets are seen as decorative products for consumers, it is important that they must have optimum quality performance. The most important features affecting quality performance are pile fiber, pile yarn, pile height, pile density, carpet surface structure (cut pile or loop pile), carpet construction etc. During usage the carpet are exposed to a number of forces due to compressional loading such as dynamic or static. To counteract these forces, the resilience of pile yarn is vital. This paper demonstrates the influence of pile density and pile height of structure parameters on compression performance which was exposed to dynamic loading. In that respect, acrylic fiber was used as pile to manufacture Wilton face-to-face cutpile carpets at two pile densities (2400 piles/dm 2 , 2880 piles/dm 2) and three pile heights (7 mm, 11 mm and 16 mm). To determine the compression properties, carpets were subjected to dynamic loading at 50, 100, 200 and 1000 impacts. Thickness of carpets was taken at each of these four impacts. Finally, thickness loss of carpets as well as compression performance was detected. In order to identify the effect of pile density, pile height and number of impact on thickness loss of carpet after dynamic loading, analysis of variance was performed statistically. Results showed that pile height, pile density and number of impact have statistically significance on compression performance of carpet samples.

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Design and Development of an Innovative Test Device Capable of Automatically Performing Carpet Static Loading Tests

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