Fabric thickness dynamic measurement during a classic uniaxial tensile test

An understanding of fabric tensile behavior is essential for the development of new technical textile applications and for realistic simulations. Indeed, mechanical fabric properties, such as thickness evolution, are very important in classic uniaxial tensile tests. The authors have developed a very lightweight inductive sensor to measure the thickness evolution during such a tensile test. The main difficulty of this study had been to find out the most suitable sensor for the specific conditions of textile tensile tests. Three different plain-woven fabrics have been tested and results are discussed.