Conditioned Textile Laboratory
This laboratory is a conditioned environment for the testing of fibres yarns and fabrics. The room conditions are 20±°C and 65±2%.
Fibre measurement
- Sifan II BSC Electronics single fibre tensile testing
- natural and synthetic fibres
- 15mm - 150mm gauge length
- single angle diameter scanning along fibre length
- Sifan III BSC Electronics single fibre tensile testing
- natural and synthetic fibres
- 15mm - 150mm gauge length
- multiple angle diameter scanning along fibre length
- OFDA100 fibre diameter measurement
- 70mm glass slide
- measures mean fibre diameter, SD and curvature
- OFDA2000 fibre diameter measurement
- 70mm glass slide, large glass slide and staple slide measurement
- measures mean fibre diameter, SD and curvature
- measures fibre diameter versus length for staple fibres
- can measure greasy staple fibres
- Textechno Fibrestress single fibre bending abrasion tester
- bending abrasion measurement at 90° and 110°
- tensile fatigue under constant load/unload
- 25 fibres per run
- variable oscillation rate (0.25 - 2Hz)
- variable oscillation distance (1-10mm)
- SDL Fibre Draw fibre length tester
Yarn measurement
- Zweigle G565 yarn hairiness tester
- Uster tester 4SE yarn evenness tester
- measures fine yarns, rovings and sliver
- inline hairiness sensor
- James Heal & Co. quadrant twist tester
- Mesdan Lab wrap board for detecting visual yarn faults
- Mesdan lab count tester
Fabric Measurement
- Permetest Sensora comfort tester
- water vapour permeability
- thermal resistance
- Mesdan Lab fabric thickness tester
- Verivide CAC120 light box
- MBTF lamp light fastness tester
- SDL Atlas pillgrade for pilling assessment
- James Heal & Co. Atlas random tumble pill box
- SDL Atlas fabric bending stiffness
Tensile Testing
- Lloyd LR30K
- 100N, 1KN and 10KN load cells
- fibre, yarn and fabric grips
- AS burst strength test clamps
- mode 1 and mode 2 test blocks
Particle size analysis
- Malvern Mastersizer particle size analyzer
- hydro 2000S dispersion unit
- ultrasonic dispersion
- particle size from 60nm - 1000µm
Surface contact angle
- KSV Cam 101 surface contact angle
- surface contact angle versus time measurement
- wetting time measurement
- liquid surface tension measurement
Microscopy preparation
- Slee Mainz CUT 5062 microtome
Spectrophotometric analysis
- Brucker Vertex 70 FTIR
- Pike ATR with Germanuim crystal (4000cm-1 - 600cm-1)
- KBr measurement (8000cm-1 - 400cm-1)
- temperature controlled measurement cell
- Oceanoptics USB4000 - UV/VIS spectrophotometer
- fibre optic
- optional light source
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