Validation of a Textile Material’s Electrostatic Characterization Device for Different Parameters and Their Effect on the Electrostatic Charge Generation

Abstract

This research aims to validate an electrostatics characterization device to better understand the process of static charge generation in textile materials and to see how different factors affect it. This electrostatic device offers a variety of settings for controlling sample electrostatic activation and has a sample size range of up to one square meter. It can move in both horizontal and vertical directions in a controlled manner, providing a variety of possibilities for testing the effect of various movement features on electrostatic charge formation. Not only the textile polymer but also the motion characterizations influence the generation of electrostatic charges in textiles. The influence of frequency, pressure, dwell time between moves, test duration, effect of different sample sizes, and amplitude of movement on electrostatic charge generation was studied in greater detail. Two different parameters of the electrostatic waveform (peak voltage and peak-to-peak voltage) were investigated. The generation of electrostatic charges is proportional to the peak voltage and peak-to-peak voltage of the electrostatic waveform. Overall electrostatic charge generation increases with increasing frequency, stepping height, applied pressure at the same frequency, and sample size, but decreases with increasing dwell time between moves at the same frequency. The charge also increases with test duration until a saturation point is reached.