Abstract: In order to study the adhesion property of fabric when it was seperated from skin in wet condition, the new developed wet fabric adhesion apparatus was used to test the adhesion property of fabric to skin in wet condition. There were three indices: adhesion force, adhesion distance and adhesion work. And a wet adhesion curve can be obtained from this method. Based on the observation and analysis of ten adhesion curves’ shapes of different kinds of fabric samples, it was concluded that adhesion curves had common characteristics. And it was found that the curve can be divided in to three parts and each part reflected different separation process. The KES system was adopted to test tensile and bending properties of fabric samples in order to study the impact of mechanics on wet fabric comfortability; meanwhile, adhesion data and curves were tested at the separation speed of 15mm/min. The results show that it is positive correlation between the tensile work and maximum adhesion force, opposite from the bending rigidity and the curve tends to be flatter with the longer adhesion distance.

Key words: wet adhesion property, adhesion curve, tensile property, bending property, low tension