Evaluation of Comfort Characteristics of Milk Protein Fabric for Apparel End-use

Authors

  • R. Rathinamoorthy Associate Professor Department of Fashion Technology PSG College of Technology Coimbatore India

Abstract

Casein is natural and well known for its soft and delicate nature due to the presence of higher protein content. In this research, casein fabric was developed and evaluated for air permeability, moisture management ability, and different low-stress mechanical properties including tensile, shear, bending, the coefficient of friction, surface roughness, values of linearity, compression work, and resilience. The developed casein fabrics were also evaluated subjectively to analyze comfort parameters. The results showed that the knitted casein fabric exhibited higher air permeability than cotton fabric and shares the same rating with cotton overall moisture management capacity index (OMMC) level. The casein fabric has higher extensibility under low stress along with lower toughness. The bending rigidity and hysteresis (at both the angles) values of casein fabric are also lower than cotton. Additionally, the casein fabric displayed better drape-ability than cotton fabric. The compression and surface friction values observed are slightly higher than cotton fabric. In the subjective analysis, out of 20 subjects, 18 reported the fabric as best compared to cotton fabric in terms of overall comfort aspects.

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Published

2021-04-05

Issue

Vol. 12 No. 1 (2021)

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Peer Reviewed Article

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