The effect of fabric design and weft density on bagging behavior of cotton woven fabrics

Abstract

This research investigates the effect of weave design and fabric weft density on the bagging behavior of cotton woven fabric interpreted in terms of fabric mechanical properties using FAST system. The results of this research show that the shear rigidity and formability significantly increased with weft density, whereas most fabric bagging parameters including bagging fatigue, resistance, hysteresis, and residual bagging hysteresis decreased accordingly. However, the weft density has no significant influence on residual bagging height. Moreover, the result of this work revealed that cotton fabric with a twill 2/2 structure exhibited the lowest shear rigidity and the highest formability which, in turn, led to the highest bagging parameters including bagging fatigue, resistance, hysteresis and residual bagging hysteresis, and the lowest residual bagging height among plain, twill 3/1, and hopsack weave designs.