Forensic Sci Int
December 2022
Bloodstained fabrics found at crime scenes are likely to have had processing treatments, such as dyeing or printing, but the effect of the treatments on bloodstain morphology is not always considered. In order to study the effect of digital printing on bloodstain morphology, drip stains were created from five impact velocities (1.9-5.
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July 2022
The majority of fabrics at crime scenes have been coloured in some way. The effect of such treatments on resultant bloodstains has not been considered. In this work, horse blood was dropped onto reactively dyed calico fabrics (100% cotton, plain woven) with three different masses of 91 g m², 171 g m² and 243 g m² and the results compared to previous work on the not-coloured calico fabric.
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August 2019
Using high speed video, the impact of blood drops falling at three velocities (1.9, 4.2 and 5.
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August 2019
This paper discusses the effects of thickness, mass per unit area, sett, yarn linear density and twist of calico fabrics (100% cotton, plain woven) on the morphology of passive bloodstains. Horse blood was dropped vertically onto three calico fabrics with different mass per unit areas (85.1 g/m², 163.
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December 2015
Very little is known about the interactions of blood and fabric and how bloodstains on fabric are formed. Whereas the blood stain size for non-absorbent surfaces depends on impact velocity, previous work has suggested that for fabrics the blood stain size is independent of impact velocity when the drop size is kept constant. Therefore, a greater understanding of the interaction of blood and fabric is required.
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