TEKSTIL VE KONFEKSIYON, cilt.32, sa.2, ss.146-154, 2022 (SCI-Expanded)
Workwears are produced to protect the wearer against occupational or environmental hazards. One of
the shared properties of several workwear types is resisting external forces during occupation. As for
workwear fabrics, the seams of the workwear should be strong enough to resist uniaxial or multiaxial
forces to maintain the properties in the cut and sewn parts of the garment. Therefore, in this study,
effects of different stitch types and their combinations on the workwear seam strength and bursting
strength were evaluated. According to results, a 2-step failure was observed at the seam strength tests
of samples those contained stitch combinations. Here, the main function of the second stitch row was
to form a safety stitch rather than increasing the overall performance. Contrarily, usage of stitch
combinations obviously contributed to the seam bursting strengths. In this case, the stitch rows
responded to the bursting forces together therefore the bursting failures occurred in 1-step.