1. Wettability of Porous Materials III: Is the Wilhelmy Method Useful for Fabrics Analysis?
- Author
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Marco Brugnara, Stefano Siboni, Luca Fambri, and C. Della Volpe
- Subjects
Absorption (acoustics) ,Materials science ,Nonwoven fabric ,Mechanics of Materials ,Materials Chemistry ,Immersion (virtual reality) ,Analysis software ,Surfaces and Interfaces ,General Chemistry ,Wetting ,Composite material ,Porous medium ,Surfaces, Coatings and Films - Abstract
Woven and nonwoven fabrics and the corresponding fibers have been analyzed using a Wilhelmy microbalance. A self-developed analysis software (written using Labview flow-data language) has been used to extract the advancing and receding angles and also other informations commonly neglected by the standard data analysis of Wilhelmy technique, such as the immersion cross-sectional area, the effective wet perimeter, the liquid absorption, the parallelism of the straight lines describing the immersion and the withdrawal of the sample in a typical force vs immersion graph. This approach has previously been proposed for rigid porous materials such as stones and wood with some success. In the present cases some modifications of the approach have been introduced to take into account the specificity of the materials. The results appear promising for the more rigid nonwoven fabric, but suffer from a greater uncertainty and from even unacceptable inconsistencies in the case of the softer and traditional fabric. Throu...
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- 2010