Abrasion Resistance Testing
For Abrasion testing, Applied Lab offers Wyzenbeek, Martindale and Taber methods. If you’re unsure which abrasion test is most applicable to your project feel free to contact Applied Lab for support.
Abrasion Resistance Tests
Get the Rub on Double Rubs! Applied Lab provides several options for abrasion resistance testing.
Wyzenbeek
Martindale
Taber
Wyzenbeek
ASTM D4157
Measures the abrasion resistance (wearing away of any part of a material by rubbing against another surface) of textile fabrics. Specimens are abraded by placing face to face with a cotton duck or wire screen abradant and subjecting them to a back and forth (double rub) movement.
Lead Time: Call for lead-time
Yardage Required: 18” x Full
Martindale
ASTM D4966
Measures the abrasion resistance (wearing away of any part of a material by rubbing it against another surface) of textile fabrics. Specimens are abraded by placing them face to face with a worsted wool abradant for thousands of cycles in a Lissajous figure movement.
Lead Time: Call for lead-time
Yardage Required: 18” x Full
Taber
ASTM D3389 (250 cycles)
Abrasion
Measures the abrasion resistance of textile fabrics. Specimens are abraded by abrasive wheels under a predetermined amount of pressure using a rotational rubbing motion.
Lead time: 3-5 days
Yardage Required: 18” x 36”
ASTM D4685
Pile Retention
Method for the determination of the abrasion of pile fabrics when the loss of pile tuffs occur, sometimes called pile retention or pile pull out.
Call for Lead time and yardage requirements.
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