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A study of the thermal properties of single jersey fabrics of cotton, bamboo and cotton/bamboo blended-yarn vis-a-vis bamboo fibre presence and yarn count

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In this study, the thermal properties of 100% cotton, 50/50 cotton/bamboo and 100% bamboo single jersey fabrics with differing yarn linear density are evaluated and analysed. The linear densities of the yarns composing the fabrics are 20s, 25s, 30s Nec and the twist level in the yarns is kept the same. An increasing the presence of bamboo fibre in the fabric causes a reduction in fabric thickness and GSM for all linear densities of yarn. Air permeability and water-vapour permeability also increase with increase in bamboo fibre content while both thermal conductivity and thermal resistance show a decreasing trend. As the constituent yarn gets finer, fabric air and water-vapour permeability both increase in value while the thermal conductivity falls.

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The authors would like to express their sincere thanks to B. Amarnath, V. Ramesh kumar, P. Sanjeevraj and A. Sasikumar for their assistance in the experimental part, to the management of Sona College of Technology for permission to use the laboratory facilities and lastly to the Textile Research Centre, TIFAC-CORE in Textile Technology and Machinery, of Kumaraguru College of Technology, Coimbatore, India for test all the samples in their advanced manufacturing laboratory.

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  1. Department of Fashion Technology, Sona College of Technology, Salem, 636005, India

    Chidambaram Prakash & Chandramouli Venkatraman Koushik

  2. TIFAC-CORE, Department of Fashion Technology, Kumaraguru College of Technology, Coimbatore, 641049, India

    Govindan Ramakrishnan

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Prakash, C., Ramakrishnan, G. & Koushik, C.V. A study of the thermal properties of single jersey fabrics of cotton, bamboo and cotton/bamboo blended-yarn vis-a-vis bamboo fibre presence and yarn count. J Therm Anal Calorim 110, 1173–1177 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10973-011-2066-8

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