Description

TEST METHODS ARE DELIVERED AS A LINK IN YOUR EMAILED RECEIPT.

AATCC TM93-2019, Abrasion Resistance of Fabrics: Accelerotor Method

Developed in 1959 by AATCC Committee RR29; revised 1966, 1984, 2005, 2019; reaffirmed 1974, 1977, 1989, 2016; editorially revised 1978, 1985, 1986, 1995, 2008; editorially revised and reaffirmed 1994, 1999, 2004, 2011.

1.  Purpose and Scope

1.1  This test method is intended for evaluating the resistance of fabrics and other flexible materials to abrasion.

2.  Principle

2.1  An unfettered fabric specimen is driven by an impeller (rotor) along a zigzag course in a generally circular orbit within a cylindrical chamber, so that it repeatedly impinges on the walls and abradant liner of the chamber while at the same time being continually subjected to extremely rapid, high velocity impacts.  The specimen is subjected to flexing, rubbing, shock, compression, stretching and other mechanical forces during the test.  Abrasion is produced throughout the specimen by rubbing of yarn against yarn, fiber against fiber, surface against surface and surface against abradant.

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