A New Index for Evaluating the Mechanical Comfort of Linen Fabric

The linen is a leading comfortable fabric, but how can we evaluate this comfort? The comfort is a multicriteria phenomenon that requires the simultaneous satisfaction of several criteria. In this study, we try to represent objectively the mechanical comfort components to simulate the consumer comfort perception. This modeling method permits to obtain mechanical comfort indexes for linen fabric that can be interpreted like an indication to foresee if the wished comfort is satisfied or not. Those indexes take into account the consumer requirement and the importance of each selected property affecting the mechanical comfort.

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