Design and Development of Fabrofeel- A Computerized Instrument to Measure the Hand of a Fabric

Handle assessed subjectively in many garment industries. The subjective assessment could vary from person to person and has significant problems in fabric handle evaluation. In the last two decades, “Fabric Objective measurement� has been one of the most active areas in textile research. An objective evaluation is presented and analyzed for cotton, jeans and silk fabric. Many objective evaluation methods are also available for fabric handle measurement such as Kawabata evaluation system, Fabric Assurance by Simple Testing etc, but these equipments are costlier and difficult to operate. This proposed instrument, Fabrofeel is easy to operate, maintain and can be easily afforded by small scale textile industries. Solid modeling of the assembly of Fabrofeel has been carried out using Solidworks software. The load cell mounting bracket and the column has been subjected to stress analysis by applying a load of 2000N on the load cell mounting bracket. ANSYS is finite element software utilized to perform the stress analysis.