Upholstered Furniture: Results of a Consumer Wear Study

Warfield, Carol L.

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“…In our consumer wear study [16],the chintz fabric was damaged much more severely than were the other three fabrics in the study. In fact, the mean breaking strength of the chintz fabric from the wear study chairs was only 57% of the original breaking strength value.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 59%

“…We did not see this protective effect in the wear study, however, because in this case the application of soils and the abrasion took place repeatedly over a long period of time. In our earlier paper [ 16 ] , we reported that the finish, in fact, was worn off in the arm, cushion, and chair back areas of many of the wear study chairs. Since the chintz fabric was so lightweight, there was an insufficient amount of fabric present to successfully resist the abrasive forces of consumer wear.…”

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confidence: 98%

“…' Although there are published analyses of some types of soil ( i.e., street dirt [12] ] and vacuum cleaner soil [ 8 ] ), we found no published analyses of typical soil on or in upholstery fabric. Visual observation of the chairs from the wear study [ 16 ] showed, however, that a colored particulate soil was present. On many chairs, there also appeared to have been some type of fluid soil that had helped to carry the particulate soil into the fabric structure.…”

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confidence: 92%

“…For the laboratory simulation of consumer wear, we used the four cotton print fabrics described in the earlier study [ 16 ] . We used three soiling conditions, i.e., no soil, Bandy Black research clay [ 14 ] , and Bandy Black plus synthetic sebum.…”

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“…In an earlier paper [ 16 ] , we conducted a consumer wear study involving 60 families who had chairs upholstered in one of four cotton print upholstery fabrics placed in their homes. The chairs were in the homes for a two year period, during which participants were instructed to use the chairs as if they were their own.…”

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Upholstery Fabric Performance: Actual Wear Versus Laboratory Abrasion

Warfield

Slaten

1989

Textile Research Journal

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We have developed a laboratory method to simulate the effects of actual consumer wear on upholstery fabrics. We used three soiling conditions, i.e., no soil, Bandy Black research clay, and Bandy Black plus synthetic sebum, on four cotton print upholstery fabrics, and a Taber rotary platform double head abraser to abrade the fabrics after soil application. Least significant differences and Pearson's product moment correlations indicated that this laboratory test method produced breaking strength and elongation values similar to those found in the fabrics exposed to a two-year consumer wear study.Both laboratory tests and actual wear tests can be used to provide valuable information about the performance of consumer textile products, but the assumption inherent in using such tests is that there is some relationship between laboratory results and performance of the items in actual use. To determine the correlation of laboratory testing procedures with enduse performance, which is sometimes measured by well designed wear tests, the conditions of actual use must be carefully analyzed. One must determine the role that chemical, physical, and aesthetic characteristics of the product actually play in performance. The conditions experienced in actual use must then be simulated as closely as possible in a controlled setting. Since actual wear is such a complex phenomenon, however, laboratory tests are usually designed to evaluate only one or a limited number of variables at a time.Abrasion resistance is the fabric property often claimed to be associated with performance or serviceability of fabrics in actual use [ 2,4,8,10 ] . Backer [ 2 ] identified three mechanisms of abrasion, i.e., frictional wear, cutting, and plucking or snagging. Direct frictional wear is the dominant mechanism when the abrading surfaces are relatively smooth. Surface cutting happens when the abrading surface has sharp projections that are small relative to the surface of the fiber, while plucking or snagging occurs when abradant projections are large relative to the fiber diameter and the abradant pressure on the fabric surface is high. The American Society for Testing and Materials includes standard test methods using five different abrasion instruments [ 1 ] . In addition, other laboratory instruments have also been designed for determining abrasion resistance ( 4 ] , particularly for flat, flex, or edge abrasion. Unfortunately, there is usually little correlation between the results from different abrasion testers [ 1,5,13,17 ] and often little correlation between these laboratory results and results of fabrics evaluated after actual use [ 1,4,11 ] . This is a reflection of the complex nature of actual wear, which is so difficult to simulate in the laboratory.A fabric's resistance to abrasion depends on a number of factors specific to the fabric, including fiber content, fiber mechanical properties, fiber shape, yarn and fabric structure, yarn twist, yarn size, yarn ply, yarn crimp, fabric thickness, thread count, weave type, and finishes [4]. T...

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