The retained angle at a crease is considered to be made up of two components: inelastic and frictional. A theoretical scheme has been developed that enables the inelastic component to be calculated from the appropriate fibre, yarn and fabric data and the calculations are illustrated for three fabrics. An experimental investigation of the crease-recovery behaviour of these fabrics, in conjunction with the calculations described above, has established a method of deducing the frictional component from the low-curvature bending-recovery behaviour of a fabric, and it is thus possible to make an estimate of the fabric crease-recovery angle. The calculation has been carried out for a range of fabrics woven from eighteen fibre types, each in four different cover factors, and the results are shown to agree reasonably well with the measured crease-recovery angles for the same fabrics. The experimental results are discussed and some interesting relationships are pointed out; in particular it is shown that fabrics must be well relaxed if the full potential of a high-recovery fibre is to be realized.
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J. Skelton (1968) studied this question.