Temel2021_Article_EvaluatingTheDesignAndRepeatab.pdf (1.71 MB)
Evaluating the design and repeatability of a novel device to measure friction of mechanical surrogate skins in contact with cotton textiles
journal contribution
posted on 2021-08-26, 11:03 authored by Mevra Temel, Alex LloydAlex Lloyd, Andrew JohnsonAndrew JohnsonThe ability to measure the level of friction between the human skin and a given textile is critical across fashion and textiles sectors, not least for the development of sporting and protective clothing. A portable custom-made device capable of measuring friction during the skin-textile interaction across often difficult or impossible to investigate body regions with objective repeatability has been established. The friction between a pre-shrunk 100% cotton textile and a quantity of four control surfaces (transparent and patterned polycarbonate plastic, and silicon and lorica surrogate skin) was measured three times per day across five consecutive days. The results clearly demonstrated that the novel friction test device had an excellent repeatability of 0.94 and 0.93 intraclass corelation coefficient (ICC) for static and dynamic friction coefficient measurement, respectively. The silicon surrogate skin control surface produced the highest friction coefficient, while the pattered polycarbonate plate demonstrated the lowest friction coefficient, suggesting that the physical features of the control surface material influenced the recorded coefficient of friction. It was also revealed that the relationship between the static and dynamic friction coefficient is dependent on the surface material.
Funding
Ministry of National Education (the Republic of Turkey) PhD scholarship
History
School
- Design and Creative Arts
Department
- Design
Published in
Tribology LettersVolume
69Issue
4Publisher
SpringerVersion
- VoR (Version of Record)
Rights holder
© The AuthorsPublisher statement
This is an Open Access Article. It is published by Springer under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence (CC BY 4.0). Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Acceptance date
2021-08-14Publication date
2021-08-23Copyright date
2021ISSN
1023-8883eISSN
1573-2711Publisher version
Language
- en