ISO 13934-1 Tensile Properties of Fabrics

This standard mainly applies to woven textile fabrics, but can be applicable to fabrics produced by other techniques. It is not normally applicable to woven elastic fabrics, geotextiles, nonwovens, coated fabrics, textile-glass woven fabrics, fabrics made from carbon fibers, or polyolefin tape yarns.

This method specifies a procedure to determine the maximum force and the elongation at maximum force of textile fabrics using a strip method. Two sets of specimens are prepared, one in the warp direction and one in the weft direction. For this test, it is important to have an increased test data rate to ensure the capture of a high number of data points. This is because when individual fibers within the fabric fail, the data rate must be fast enough to catch these peaks.

Pneumatic side action grips with rubber coated jaw faces are well suited for clamping of the fabric strips. While manual action grips will work, many prefer pneumatic side action grips for ease of use, productivity, and better repeatability. Adjustable grip pressure also allows users to fine-tune the gripping pressure to avoid jaw breaks or slippage.

The challenges of testing to this standard are:

• Rapid data capture rate
• Specimen gripping

Instron's Solution:

• Rapid data capture rate with Instron's 5900 controller allows data peaks and valleys to be captured accurately at up to 2,500 points per second
• Instron pneumatic side action grips with rubber faces are well-suited to gripping nearly all types of fabric specimens for this test while maintaining high throughput

It is important to review ISO 13934-1:2013 in order to fully understand the test setup, procedure, and results requirements.