COMPRESSIONAL BEHAVIOR OF DOUBLE-ROVE YARNS

Little information is available in the literature about double-rove sp un yarn's low-stress mechanical properties. An experimental investigat ion has been made in a short-staple spinning system to study the effec t of strand spacing, twist, and spindle speed on a double-rove yarn's compressive resilience, and compressibility at low-stress levels. The response-surface equations developed from the experimental results, ha ve been used to explain the compressional behaviour of the yarn studie d.