The Mechanical Behasviour of Single-tricot Warp-knitted Fabrics Part I: An Experimental Investigation of Knitted Fabrics of Varying Loop Geometry under Tensile Stress with Special Attention Given to

摘要

Single-tricot warp-knitted structures made frompolyester-fibre (PET-fibre) yarns are nalysed for their geometrical properties and their uniacial tensile behaviour. A detailed study is devoted to the inter-yran friction in these structures, since yarn slippage is one of the effects dominating large-scale deformations fo the fabrics. Both static (initiation of slippage) and sliding (ongoing slippage) friction were investigated. The results of theinvestigations sever as a basis for finite-element modelling (FEM), which will be treated in another paper.