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Measurement precision and evaluation of the diameter profiles of single wool fibers

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posted on 2007-01-01, 00:00 authored by Huimin Wang, T Mahar, Xin LiuXin Liu, Xungai Wang
A recent model of the Single Fiber Analyzer 3001 (SIFAN3001) was firstly employed to obtain the single wool fiber diameter profiles (SfFDPs) at multiple orientations. The results showed that using SIFAN3001 to measure fiber diameter at four orientations for 50 single fibers randomly sub-sampled from each mid-side sample can produce average fiber diameter profiles (AS fFDPs) of fibers within staples. Within the testing regime used, the precision estimates for the total samples were ±1.3 µm for the mean fiber diameter of staples and 1.4 µm for the average fiber diameter of the AS fFDPs at each scanned step in the diameter profile. The mean diameter ratio (ellipticity) obtained from the four orientations was 1.08±0.01, confirming that the Merino wool fibers under review were elliptical rather than circular. The elliptical morphology of wool fibers and the precision of the fiber diameter measurement at each point along a fiber will be considered in the development of a mechanical model of Staple Strength testing.

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Journal

Textile research journal

Volume

77

Issue

12

Pagination

981 - 991

Publisher

Sage

Location

Thousand Oaks, Calif.

ISSN

0040-5175

eISSN

1746-7748

Language

eng

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The final, definitive version of this article has been published in the Journal, Textile research journal, Vol 77, Issue Number 12, 2007, © SAGE Publications Ltd, 2007 by SAGE Publications Ltd at the Textile research journal page: http://trj.sagepub.com/ on SAGE Journals Online: http://online.sagepub.com/

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C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

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2007, SAGE Publications

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