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The effect of fabric movement on washing performance in a front-loading washer IV: under 3.25-kg laundry load condition
- Title
- The effect of fabric movement on washing performance in a front-loading washer IV: under 3.25-kg laundry load condition
- Authors
- Cho, Yoonkyung; Yun, Changsang; Park, Chung Hee
- Ewha Authors
- 윤창상
- SCOPUS Author ID
- 윤창상
- Issue Date
- 2017
- Journal Title
- TEXTILE RESEARCH JOURNAL
- ISSN
- 0040-5175
1746-7748
- Citation
- TEXTILE RESEARCH JOURNAL vol. 87, no. 9, pp. 1071 - 1080
- Keywords
- fabric movement; mechanical action; detergency; front-loading washer; 3.25-kg laundry load
- Publisher
- SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
- Indexed
- SCIE; SCOPUS
- Document Type
- Article
- Abstract
- This study investigated the effects of fabric movement on detergency in a front-loading washer. To this end, various fabric movements of 3.25-kg loads were induced by controlling wash spin speeds at 34, 46, 50, and 54r/min and detergency was measured, after which the correlation between the fabric movement and detergency at each wash speed was analyzed. The observed fabric movement characteristics were represented by 10 Fabric Movement Indexes (FMIs), with numerical values defined to describe fabric movements in a front-loading washer. It was revealed that detergency was highest at the wash spin speed of 46r/min. It was also found that each speed resulted in distinguishing characteristics of fabric movements and two FMIs, "Distance from the center of the drum to the tracer fabric" and "Number of appearances of the tracer fabric", had the greatest influence on detergency. These results show that not only falling movement, which provides high mechanical force to fabric, but also fabric interactions, such as abrasion and mixing, also affected detergency just as significantly.
- DOI
- 10.1177/0040517516648508
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- 신산업융합대학 > 의류산업학과 > Journal papers
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