EFFECT OF WALE WISE INCREASING OF TUCK AND MISS LOOPS ON BURSTING STRENGTH OF SINGLE JERSEY FABRIC AT GREY AND FINISH STATE

Abstract

Strength is a very important criterion for any material especially for fabric. To increase the durability and dimensional stability-strength plays a vital role. Of all types of weft knit fabrics single jersey fabric is very popular. This paper focused on the bursting strength of various derivatives of single jersey knit fabric in both grey and finished state. Derivatives of single jersey knit fabrics are found by using tuck and miss loops in corporate with knit loops in wales direction. Higher presence of tuck and miss loops in wales direction affect the bursting strength. From the total analysis it was observed that bursting strength decreases with the increasing of tuck (single pique, double pique, single lacoste, double lacoste) and miss loops (Single cross miss, double cross miss) than all knit loop containing fabric (plain single jersey). It is also observed that the bursting strength decrement of tuck loop containing fabric is higher than miss loop containing fabric as well as the lacoste & locknit fabrics have higher bursting strength than the pique & cross miss fabric.