Affiliations: Central Leather Research Institute, Adyar, Madras-20, India
Abstract: The mechanical properties of raw skins of sheep and goat and hides of cow and buffalo and their constituent fibres obtained from different sites were investigated. The locations chosen were neck, shoulder, front shank, belly, butt, official butt, tail end and back shank and the properties investigated were apparent density, tensile strength and elongation at break. The apparent density was the highest in the shoulder region followed by butt, belly, front shank, back shank, neck, leg, tail end and knee regions. The tensile strength was the highest in the belly, shoulder, butt, front shank, back shank, leg, neck, tail end and knee regions. The order from the highest to the lowest in the elongation at break was belly, back shank, front shank, butt, neck, knee, leg, shoulder and tail end. The same trend was observed in all the hides and skins studied. There was no appreciable difference between the mean breaking length of fibres obtained from various locations.
DOI: 10.3233/BIR-1967-4405
Journal: Biorheology, vol. 4, no. 4, pp. 185-191, 1967
