Special applications and particularities of textile damage analysis

7 Special applications and particularities of textile damage analysis 

1 Forensic application of textile dannage analysis nnethods 

Forensic science and its application in criminal investigative technology are used to help clarify criminal cases. Textiles can play an important role here, usually in the form of clothing but also including household and automobile textiles, furnishings and in rare cases also technical textiles, for example strings and ropes used to 

It is essential for the court to know how highly the results based on fibre traces are to be rated as evidence. In order to assess the evidential value of transferred fibres their frequency has to be taken into account as well. This so-called degree of discrimination is obtained from studies on fibre population (frequency of occurrence at certain places or on certain objects) and from databases, which, for example, give information about the frequency of certain types of fibres in the relevant types of clothing. 

It is also interesting in damage analysis to know which fibre characteristics are determined in criminal investigations. Typical characteristics are  

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