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TS 470 TECHNICAL TEXTILES

Introduction:
Concept of functionality in Textiles; Overview of Technical Textiles Market; Manufacturing
techniques for making different technical textile products such as special yarns and fabrics
Technical textile fibers:
Development in fiber materials such as high-performance fibers for special applications in
different technical textile products
Application areas:
Requirements, Functions, Manufacturing and Applications of Technical Textiles in the field of
Agriculture, Civil Engineering, Automobile Industry, Sports Industry, Packaging Industry,
Medicine, Protective Clothing, Home Textiles, and Environmental Protection
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Chapter # 1
INTRODUCTION
• Concept of functionality in Textiles
• Overview of Technical Textiles Market
• Manufacturing techniques for making different technical
textile products such as special yarns and fabrics

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1.1 Definition & Application Areas

Definition:
“Textile materials and products manufactured primarily for their
technical and performance properties rather than their aesthetic
or decorative characteristics”.

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1.1 Definition & Application Areas

Application Areas:
In general, application areas of technical textiles are classified as:
1. Hometech: Carpet components, furniture components, consumer and industrial wipes, air and water filtration,
interior design, drapes, covers, ticking, composites, etc.

2. Packtech: Bulk packaging with a predefined three‐dimensional (3D) structure, scrap and disposable, spacer and
tying, absorbent food pads, etc.

3. Sporttech: Luggage components, sports equipment, sportswear, wipes, covers, disposable, and camping
equipment, etc.

4. Medtech: Drapes and gowns, sterile wrap, swabs and dressing, cleaning products, cover stock, wound care,
protective apparel, bedding and sheets and masks, etc.

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Application Areas:
In general, application areas of technical textiles are classified as:
5. Protech: Chemical and biological protection, particulate protection, flame retardant, cut resistant, shields and
gowns worn in emergency situations, chemical handling,hazardous waste control, cleaning, filtration, etc.

6. Clothtech: Cleanroom garments, shoe components, insulation and structure, sewing products, interlining, leather
goods applications, etc.

7. Indutech: Electrical components, filtration and separation, satellite dishes, clothing, surfacing tissues/veils,
conveyor belts, reinforced plastics, polyvinyl chloride (PVC) substrates, flame barriers, noise absorbents, battery
separators, antislip matting, lifting and pulling, etc.

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1.1 Definition & Application Areas

Application Areas:
In general, application areas of technical textiles are classified as:
8. Geotech: Asphalt overlay, soil stabilization, drainage, sedimentation and erosion control, pond liner,
impregnation base, drainage channel liners, separation, reinforcement, filtration, offshore land reclamation,
roadside, railside, river and canal banks, reservoirs, etc.

9. Oekotech: Environmental protection, exhaust air and wastewater filtration, dust collection, oil and fuel
absorbent, gas and odour removal, etc.

10. Agrotech: Crop covers, seed blankets, weed control fabrics, greenhouse shading, root bags, biodegradable
plant pots, capillary matting cover, protection and collection, fishing, etc.

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1.1 Definition & Application Areas

Application Areas:
In general, application areas of technical textiles are classified as:
11. Buildtech: Roofing and tile underlay, underslating, thermal and noise insulation, house wrap, facings for plaster
board, pipe wrap, concrete moulding layers, foundations and ground stabilization, vertical drainage, protection
and display, textile construction, building components, reinforcements, high quality wallpapers, etc.

12. Mobiltech: Boot liners, parcel shelves, heat shields, shelf trim, moulded bonnet liners, boot floor covering,
fuel/oil filters, headliners, rear parcel shelves, airbags, cabin air filters, engine intake and exhaust air filters,
silencer pads, insulation materials, car covers, under padding, car mats, tapes, backing for tufted carpets, seat
covers, door trim and insulation, floor coverings, protection, composites, etc.

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Application Areas of Technical Textiles by Finishing:

• Nanotechnology
• Low temperature sol-gel techniques
• Plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD)
• It is a finishing process which can be used to deposit thin solid polymeric films from a gas state to a solid state
on a textile substrate to achieve the desired properties. plasma treatment can be considered as a dry
alternative to the wet chemical treatments and so they are environmentally friendly.
• Layer by Layer assembly (LbL)
• new finishing technique by which ultrathin composite films can be developed on solid surfaces like textiles

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1 . 2 C o n c e p t o f Pe r f o r m a n c e / F u n c t i o n a l i t y I n Te x t i l e s

Performance / Functionality in textile can be defined as :

“a unique properties that fiber/yarn can impart in the textile” .
Unique Property could be:
• High strength/modulus
• Thermal Stability
• Chemical Resistance
• Flame Resistance & many more…

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1 . 3 Te c h n i c a l Te x t i l e s M a t e r i a l s , P r o c e s s & P r o d u c t s

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1.5 Fiber available to the end -user & associated mec hanical proper ties

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1 . 6 A p p l i c a t i o n o f Te c h n i c a l Te x t i l e

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 A S S I G N M E N T / P R E S E N T AT I O N D I S C U S S I O N

Presentations Schedule TS-470 Technical Textiles

• 20 Presentations in 11 weeks Week # Date Day Group #
1 15-Mar-23 - -
• 02 groups per week
2 22-Mar-23 3 14
• Each group is advised to summarize one 3 26-Apr-23 4 13
4 03-May-23 9 19
research paper (publication year > 2018) of 5 10-May-23 Quiz # 2
6 17-May-23 2 12
their choice related to technical textile

Wednesdays
7 24-May-23 Mid Term

advancements and submit a presentation & 8 31-May-23 6 16

9 07-Jun-23 7 17
summary report related to it. 10 14-Jun-23 5 15
11 21-Jun-23 10 20
• 20 minutes allocated to each group. 12 28-Jun-23 1 11
13 05-Jul-23 8 18
• 60% weightage to presentation skills & 40%
14 12-Jul-23 Quiz # 2
weightage to report writing skills. 15 19-Jul-23 - -

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1 . 3 Te c h n i c a l Te x t i l e s M a t e r i a l s , P r o c e s s & P r o d u c t s

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Definition
Agrotech (Agro-textiles)
• Textiles used in agriculture are termed as agro textile. They used for crop protection, fertilization…
• The essential properties required are strength, elongation, stiffness, and bio-degradable, resistance to
sunlight and to toxic environment.
• All these properties help with the growth and harvesting foodstuffs.
• There is a growing interest in using material which is gradually bio-degradable.

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Definition

Biotextile
• Bio-textiles are structures composed of textile fiber designed for use in specific biological environment where their
performance depends on biocompatibility and biostability with cells and biological fluids.
• Bio-textiles includes implantable devices such as surgical sutures, hernia repair fabric, arterial grafts, artificial skin and
parts of artificial hearts.
• Medical textiles are a broader group which also includes bandages, wound dressings, hospital linen, preventive
clothing etc.
• Antiseptic bio-textiles are textiles used in fighting against cutaneous bacterial proliferation.
• Zeolite and triclosan are at the present time the most used molecules.
• This original property allows to fight inhibit the development of odours or bacterial spread in the diabetic foot.
New Developments
• In the new paradigm of tissue engineering, professionals are trying to develop new textiles so that the body can form
new tissue around these devices so it's not relying solely on synthetic foreign implanted material.
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Definition

Biotextile

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Definition

Buildtech (Construction Textiles)

• Textiles used in construction — concrete reinforcement, front
foundation systems, interior construction, insulations, proofing
materials, air conditioning, noise prevention, visual protection,
protection against the sun, building safety.
• PVC coated high tenacity PES, teflon coated glass fiber fabrics
of silicone coated PES are used for their low creep properties.
• Splendid examples of such construction are found in football
stadia, airports and hotels.

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Definition
Geotech (Geo-textiles)
• These are used in reinforcement of embankments or in constructional
work.
• The fabrics in geo textiles are permeable fabrics and are used with
soils having ability to separate, filter, protect or drain.
• The application include civil engineering, earth and road construction.
dam engineering, soil sealing and in drainage systems.
• Synthetic fibers like glass, polypropylene and acrylic fibers are used
to prevent cracking of the concrete, plastic and other building
materials.
• Polypropylene and polyester are used in geo textiles and liquid

filtration due to their compatibility.

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Home tech (Domestic Textiles) — interior decoration
• Textiles used in a domestic environment and furniture,
carpeting, protection against the sun, cushion materials,
fireproofing, floor and wall coverings, textile reinforced
structures/ fittings.
• Fire retardant properties are obtained either using
inherent fire-retardant fibers such as modacrylic or
through the application of a coating with fire retardant
additives (bromide of phosporus compounds).

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Definition

Indutech (Industrial Textiles)

• Textiles used for chemical and electrical applications and
textiles related to mechanical engineering.
• Silk-screen printing, filtration, plasma screens,
.lifting/conveying equipment, sound-proofing elements,
melting processes, roller covers, grinding technology,
insulations, seals, fuel cell.

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Definition

Medtech (Medical Textiles)

• These are commonly used in bandages and sutures (stitching the wounds).
• Not all the textile fibres can be used here, because their performances depend upon interaction with the cells
and different fluids produce by the body.
• Sutures and wound dressing uses fibres like silk and other synthetic fibres.
• Cotton, silk polyester, polyamide are also used in medical applications.
• Medical textiles also cover surgical gowns and drapes.
• There are two classes of materials: reusables and non-wovens.
• Reusable are either PES or PES-cotton woven materials or laminates.
• Also, non- woven materials are used in the operating theatre.

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Mobiltech (Textiles used in Transport)

• These textiles are used in the construction of
automobiles, railways, ships, aircraft and spacecraft.
• Examples are Truck covers (PVC coated PES
fabrics), car trunck coverings (often needle felts),
seat covers (knitted materials), seat belts, non-
wovens for cabin air filtration (also covered in
indutech), airbags, parachutes, boats (inflatable),
air ballons.

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Oekotech or Ecotech (Environmentally-friendly Textiles)

• New applications for textiles in environmental protection
applications - floor sealing, erosion protection, air cleaning,
prevention of water pollution, water cleaning, waste
treatment/recycling, depositing area construction, product
extraction, domestic water sewerage plants.

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Packtech (Packaging Textiles)

• Packaging, silos, containers, bags, canvas covers, marquee tents.
Protech (Protective Textiles)
• Protection against heat and radiation for fire fighter clothing, against molten metals for welders, for
bullet proof jackets etc, all these things are obtained by usage of technical textiles with high
performance fibres.
• In bullet proof jackets, special fibre aramid are used which have high tenacity, high thermal resistance
and low shrinkage.
• Glass fibre is also used in fire-proof jackets due to its high strength resistance.
• Protective clothing is also by when they go in space.

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Definition

Sportiecli (Sports Textiles)

Shoes, sports equipment, flying and sailing sports, climbing, angling, cycling, winter and summer sports, indoor
sports wear.
Specific Areas of Application
Conveyor Belts
• Carcass is a fabric inside the conveyor belt, which is responsible for the strength and stretch properties of the
belt. This carcass is made with layers of woven fabrics bonded together.
Electronics in Textiles

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