Equipment:

Frazier Schiefer Compressometer

The Compressometer is especially suited for evaluating the thickness, compressibility and resilience of most materials where observations are desired at more than a single compressive load. The materials for which it is especially suited include all textiles, rubber, felt, nonwovens, paper, coated materials, films, and similar materials. It indicates the thickness directly for a specific applied pressure. By plotting the thicknesses at specific increasing and decreasing pressures, a compression and recovery curve can be obtained. From the Compression and Recovery Curve several very important and critical properties may be calculated, such as compressibility, compressional resilience, tendency to matt under compression, ability to recover when compressed, and other qualities related to comfort characteristics. The use of the Frazier Compressometer thus provides an excellent means of describing tactile and kinaesthetic characteristics quantitatively, such as feel, hand softness, hardness, warmth and many other qualities.

ASTM D-5199

ASTM D-1117

ASTM D-1777

ASTM D-461