After APP treatment, pilling property of knitted wool fabrics was evaluated by standard testing method for pilling (EN ISO 12945-1; ICI pilling box method).
The manual method was developed by the US Department of Interior, Bureau of Mines and has been codified into a standard test method by the American Society of Testing and Materials (ASTM D 1142-95 1995).
For flash point determination, ASTM D93 (standard test method for flash point by Pensky-Martens closed cup tester) was employed.
Iodine number (ASTM D4607-94 2006; Hill and Marsh 1968), decolorizing power (Girgis and El-Hendawy 2002; Rozada et al. 2005), and other parameters such as apparent density, moisture, loss on ignition, ash, water soluble matter, and acid soluble matter were analyzed by using standard test methods (Namasivayam and Kadirvelu 1997; BIS Bureau of Indian Standardss) 1989).
Finally, in order to evaluate effect of each component on fastness properties of the blends, wash, rub and light fastnesses were determined by the corresponding standard test methods.
The tests done were standard test methods used by the local industry for evaluating print properties of water-based inks.
The behaviour of the film is simulated by means of numerical models and with the material properties obtained in the laboratory by using standard testing methods.
This type of occult resistance phenotype may be missed by the standard testing methods and may have contributed to the frequency of treatment failures previously observed [ 9- 13].
The composites were characterized by using physical and mechanical standard testing methods.
This was used to determine the NO3-N and total phosphorus (TP) content on days 0, 6, 16, and 18, according to the standard testing methods suggested by the Chinese state (Xu et al. 2015).
