USE OF TECHNICAL TEXTILES

WITH
SPECIAL REFERENCE
TO
ACOUSTICAL APPLICATIONS
by

DEFINITION:
Textile material and products
manufactured primary for their
technical performances & functional
properties rather than their aesthetic
or decorative characteristics

APPLICATION OF TECHNICAL
TEXTLES
SECTOR-WISE

Agrotech (agriculture, horticulture & forestry)

Buildtech (building & construction)

Clothtech (technical components of foot wear &

clothing)

Geotech (geotextiles & civil engg.)

Hometech (Technical components of furniture,

household
textiles and floor coverings)

Indutech (filtration, conveying, cleaning & other

industrial
areas)

Meditech (hygiene & medical)

Mobiltech (automobiles, shipping, railways &

aerospace)

Oekotech (environmental protection)

Packtech (packaging)

Protech (personal & property protection.)

Sporttech (sport & leisure)

Segment-wise market size of technical textiles

(Volume-000 Tonnes, and Value- US$mn).
Year

Technical
Textile
Sectors

2000

CARG* (%)

2005

2010

Volume

Value

Volume

Value

Volume

Value

Volume

Value

Mobiltech

2479

25629

2828

26861

3338

29282

3.02

1.34

Indutech

2205

13405

2624

16687

3257

21528

3.98

4.85

Sporttech

989

13897

1153

16052

1382

19062

3.40

3.21

Buildtech

1648

5872

2033

7296

2591

9325

4.63

4.73

Hometech

2186

6750

2499

7622

2853

8778

2.70

2.66

Clothtech

1238

6070

1413

7014

1656

8306

2.95

3.19

Meditech

1543

5391

1928

6670

2380

8238

4.43

4.33

Agrotech

1381

5541

1615

6568

1958

8079

3.55

3.84

Protech

238

5193

279

5873

340

6857

3.63

2.82

Packtech

2552

4393

2990

5329

3606

6630

3.52

4.20

Geotech

255

740

319

927

413

1203

4.94

4.98

16714

92881

19681

106899

23774

127288

3.59

3.20

214

800

287

1039

400

1389

6.45

5.67

Total
Of which
Oekotech

INTERNATIONAL
SCENARIO
In 200519,681 x 103 tons by volume
106,899 US $ mn by value
By 201023,774 x 103 tons by volume
127,288 US $ mn by value

DOMESTIC SCENARIO
Market size Rs. 19,130 Crores during
2003-04
Per capita consumption ( 0.2kg) is below
China (1.5 kg)
Opportunities to grow in commodity
segments through cost competitiveness

EXAMPLE OF TECHNICAL TEXTILE PRODUCTS

1.

Fibers

Reinforcement for composites,

cushioning, fillings, electrical
components, insulation, toys

2.

Yarn type products

Sutures, ropes, fishing gears, shoe

components

3.

Fabrics

(i)

Woven fabrics

Filtration, flexible bulk containers,

conveyor belts, carpet , PVC coating

substrates, Geotextiles etc.

(ii)

Knitted fabrics

Luggage,
fishing
nets,
shoe
components, cleaning cloths, filtration
etc.

(iii)

Non-wovens

Coverstock-sanitary napkins and

diapers, carpets home and
automotive, cleaning wipes etc.

Some examples of day-to-day use of technical textile

products
Sr. No.

Applications

Products

Kitchen

Wipes, floor mops, tea bags

Clothe

Shoe

Collar/cuff interlinings, shoulder

pads, wadding in jackets
Lining, insoles, toe stiffners

Car

Carpets, roof-liners, insulation

Civil Engineering

Geotextiles in roads, railway tracks, soil

erosion

Furnishing

Carpets, vertical blinds

Factory

Dust collection filter bags, liquid filtration,

clean air filters of AC systems

Hospital

Masks, gowns, caps, dressing, bandage

Hygiene

Baby diaper, sanitary napkin, wet tissues

10

Bed

Blanket, quilts, mattress

Basics of Sound
The science of sound is associated with the motional
disturbances from equilibrium of elastic media
Acoustics may be divided into three branches:
Sound production
Sound transmission
Sound detection

Various Sound levels in day-to-day life

What is Noise?
Noise is defined as an undesired sound
A heterogeneous sound may be made up of
frequencies 100 to 10,000 Hertz

Prevention of Noise
WHO recommended noise exposure limits
Area

Recommended maximum level dB(A) Leq

Day time
Night time

Industrial/Occupatio
nal

55

45

Indoor (domestic)

45

35

Industrial area

75

65

Commercial area

65

55

Residential area

55

45

Silence zone

50

45

Textiles for Acoustic Management

To improve audibility
To preserve natural quality of sound
To prevent transmission of undesired sound

Two types of noise is observed in a building

Air borne noise
Impact noise

Acoustical properties of typical fabric for noise

reduction. (Teflon fibre glass composite)
Frequency (Hz.)

124

250

500

1000

2000

4000

Sound absorption (sabins)

43.0

49.7

38.7

50.4

52.1

54.2

Sound absorption coefficient

(Sabins /ft2)

0.52

0.65

0.54

0.69

0.69

0.71

Noise reduction coefficient

(NRC) = 0.64

SOME TYPICAL
APPLICATION OF
ACOUSTIC FABRICS

Sound control curtains

Sound control doors

Acoustic blanket enclosure

Acoustic barrier walls

Hometech-Carpets They are one of the major

home textiles. The positive effects of carpet on the
internal environment that were identified were:

Acoustic comfort

Thermal comfort and energy saving

Optical comfort (provided by selection of design

and colour)

Safety from fire

Air hygiene

According to Carpet and Rug Institute of America,

the main factors affecting sound absorption are as
follows:

Cut pile construction provides better

absorption than loop pile construction.

In cut pile constructions, pile height and

density increase absorption.

In loop pile constructions, pile height is more

important than pile density.

Acoustic performance is independent of the

pile fiber type.

Mobiltech
A typical automotive Carpet Structure includes the following:

Decorative top layer of fibre

Thermoplastic material

Acoustic & vibration damping layer

Matrix of Material in Automotive Textiles

Layer

Materials used

Top layer

Tufted BCF nylon or needle punched

Polyester or Polypropylene back, latex coated.

Thermoplasti
c layer

Polyethylene powder, meld able fibres, EVA

or a further thick layer of compounded SBR
latex.

Acoustic layer

Heavy layer of EPDM, shoddy fibre or PU

foam

Conclusion

Research and development work is being done

continuously in the Technical Textile area. Both basic
and application oriented research is conducted to find
new materials, to improve the properties of the existing
materials and products and to find new application areas
for technical textiles. High tech research is continuously
done at various levels of technical textiles polymers,
fibers, yarns, manufacturing methods finishing and
coating. Applied research had been proved very
valuable to solve major industrial problems.
Acoustic textiles are generally recognized to be one
of the most important and promising areas for the future
of the textiles industry. Advances in polymers, fibers,
yarns, manufacturing technology and fabric/web forming
technologies have spearheaded the development of
Acoustic textiles. A single problem with great importance
in field of Acoustics can be solved with new techniques
developed in field of textile, so there is a continuous
research in textile in order to be more beneficial to
human.

THANX
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