BANGLADESH TEXTILE UNIVERSITY

M Sc in Textile Engineering (Session 2014-15)

Final Examination
Course Code: YME 526 Course Title: Textile Materials & Properties
Total Marks: 75 Time: 3 hrs
There are 7 (seven) questions. Answer any 5 (five) questions.
Sequence (a, b, c,…) must be maintained in answering each question.

1. a. How is fibre structure developed during high-speed melt spinning process? Why is the
melt-spun fibre undergone for further drawing? Discuss different fibre drawing
techniques along with the merits of laser-heated drawing system over conventional ones. 6
b. Elaborate the development of fibre structure during gel spinning and dry-jet wet spinning. 4
c. Why is heat-setting necessary after drawing? Distinguish between isometric- and isotonic
heat setting process citing necessary curves. 5

2. a. What is electrospinning? Write down the objectives to manufacture nanofibres by

electrospinning. 2
b. Discuss the basic principle of electrospinning. 5
c. ‘Several factors affect the structure and morphology of electrospun fibres’- explain. 5
d. Describe a method to prepare yarns from electrospun nanofibres. 3

3. a. Why are the tensile behaviors of textile fibres expressed by stress-strain (S-S) curve instead
of load-extension curve? 2
b. What is ‘weak link’ effect? Explain how the results of tensile strength of two fibres can be
reversed by their test length. 5
c. Elaborate the different stages of the S-S curve of a semicrystalline polymeric fibre at the
molecular level. 5
d. Throw light on the toughness of textile fibres. 3

4. a. What is meant by viscoelastic behavior of textile fibres? 2

b. Describe creep and stress relaxation phenomena of textile fibre with necessary
illustrations. Diagrammatically show different modes of measuring creep. 6

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 c. State the ways to express the creep behavior of textile fibres. 2
d. Give an account on the models to represent the viscoelastic behavior of textile fibres. 5

5. a. What is X-ray? Schematically show how X-ray is generated from an atom. 3

b. State and establish Bragg’s law to determine the interplanar distance of crystals. 4
c. How can degree of crystallinity and crystallite size be calculated by X-ray diffraction? 4
d. Schematic X-ray images and profiles of amorphous and differently-oriented crystal
structures. 4

6. a. Define polymer composites and nanocomposites. State the merits of nanocomposites over
microcomposites. If a filler of 50 m-dia filler is transformed into 20 nm-dia nanofiller, then
calculate the number of nanofillers and the increase in surface area. 5
b. What are carbon nanotubes (CNTs)? Mention their outstanding features. How are they
dispersed in polymer solutions to prepare nanocomposites? 5
c. How are cellulose whiskers (CWs) obtained? State their characteristics. Narrate the
fabrication method and properties of polymer nanocomposites prepared from CWs. 5

7. Write about the followings points: 3×5

¯ 121,
a. Miller indices of the crystal planes: 121, ¯ 121, ¯¯
¯ ¯ and 121
¯ 121
b. Specific strength and specific modulus of fibres
c. Fibre density measurement by floatation method.

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