Measurements of Electric Static Charge Generated From Sliding of Cotton Against Clothes Textile

Abstract

Electric static charges produced from friction of engineering materials own a negative impact on their implementations. The rising use of polymeric materials put forward the importance of studying that effect. Electric static charges constructing up on human skin and or wears in forthright contact with human body are highly harmful and can make dangerous health problems.

Electrification of textiles is the major factors that assign the quality of cloths. The electrostatic charge of textiles can be largely evaluated by the touch of human skin to sense the shock. Voltage generated from electrification of the human body by sliding of the cotton textiles as internal clothes against textile of outer clothes should not exceed certain limit to avoid serious health problems. In the present work, electric static charge generated from the friction of cotton textile sliding against three different types of textiles materials as outer clothes has been measured.

The quality of textile depends on the value of static charge accumulated on textile surfaces. Where the lower values of static charge is the best quality. The maximum value of electrostatic charge reached to 70 volt was found for textiles contain 97% cotton + 3% Elastane. Sliding of cotton textile against different clothes, show static charge generated on clothes the values of static charge depended on the content of different fibers in clothes. The higher value of static charge was observed at wet working condition this behavior closed on the fact of good conductive of water conditions.