Stress Relaxation of Tufted Carpets and Carpet Components: Analysis of the Tufted Carpet Structure

Textile Research Journal

Volumn 75, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 485-491

  Phillips, Kristie J ^a   Ghosh, Tushar K ^a   Dickey, David A ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARPET MANUFACTURE; DIMENSIONAL STABILITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RHEOLOGY; STRESS RELAXATION;

LATEX WEIGHT; TUFTED CARPETS; TUFTING DENSITY;

FABRICS;

CARPET; RELAXING; STRUCTURAL PROPERTY; TUFTING;

EID: 24944575964     PISSN: 00405175     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0040517505053844     Document Type: Article

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