Effects of structural parameters on compressibility and soiling properties of machine woven carpets

• Published in: Journal of the Textile Institute Vol. 110; no. 9; pp. 1263 - 1270
• Main Authors: Sarıoğlu, Esin, Kaynak, Hatice Kübra, Çelik, Halil İbrahim, Vuruşkan, Deniz
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Manchester Taylor & Francis 02-09-2019; Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Subjects: acrylic fiber; Carpets; compressibility; Compression tests; Deformation effects; Density; Dynamic loads; Recovery; Soil compressibility; soiling; static and dynamic loading; Texture; Woven carpet
• ISSN: 0040-5000; 1754-2340
• DOI: 10.1080/00405000.2019.1567975

Compressibility performance of the machine woven carpet after a static or dynamic loading expresses the texture deformation tendency of the carpet. This study is an experimental attempt to investigate the effects of pile height and pile density on compressibility and soiling property by dynamic loading, prolonged heavy static loading, compression recovery and artificial soiling tests. In this study, a total of 12 carpet samples with three different pile heights and four different pile densities were tested. As a result of this study, it was seen that higher pile density provides a lower thickness loss and so a lower level of texture deformation. On the other hand, pile height has a preventing effect for texture deformation for static loading and compression recovery tests whereas there is no considerable effect on dynamic loading test. There is no considerable difference between the soiling properties of the samples.