Factors Affecting the Tensile Properties of Nonmercerized and Mercerized Cotton Fibers
| Autor: | Kenneth W. Alger, S. Haig Zeronian, Hiroko Kawabata |
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| Rok vydání: | 1990 |
| Předmět: |
010302 applied physics
Materials science Polymers and Plastics Tension (physics) 02 engineering and technology 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology 01 natural sciences Extensibility Crystallinity Creep 0103 physical sciences Ultimate tensile strength medicine Chemical Engineering (miscellaneous) Crystallite Fiber Composite material Swelling medicine.symptom 0210 nano-technology |
| Zdroj: | Textile Research Journal. 60:179-183 |
| ISSN: | 1746-7748 0040-5175 |
| DOI: | 10.1177/004051759006000310 |
| Popis: | When a G. hirsutum cotton fiber was suspended under tension in water and then allowed to dry without removing the stress, its strength increased and its extensibility decreased. If the sample was slack mercerized before the treatment, its strength and extensibility changes were not as marked. The altered properties of the nonmercerized cotton are ascribed to the water inducing plasticization of the fiber, thus permitting the structural units of the sample to readjust as its convolutions began to untwist and as creep occurs. By comparing the properties of the nonmercerized and mercerized counterparts, we propose that the increased strength and extensibility of cotton with slack mercerization is due to the swelling effects of this treatment, which causes un twisting of the fiber and reduces its degree of crystallinity and its crystallite lengths. |
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