High performance textile fibres

Van Dingenen JLJ, "Gel-spun high-performance polyethylene fibres", in Hearle JWS (Ed), "High-performance Fibres ", The Textile Institute and Woodhead Publishing Ltd, Abington, Cambridge, 2001, Chap. 3. 

Lantor Universal Carbon Fibres, Cleckheaton, West Yorkshire, England—previously called Universal Carbon Fibres. Supply fire protection and high performance textiles and yams with trade name Panotex. 

High performance textiles include fibres, yams, fabrics and composite structures made from functional organic polymers and inorganic materials... 

It is probably evident from the above introductory discussion, and important to realise, that the whole issue of heat and fire protection with respect to textiles is a complex area involving knowledge of elements of fire science, flame retardant treatments, development of heat and fire resistant fibres and derived textile structures and the inter-relationships between regulations, applications and markets. The bibliography lists a number of prime sources of information in these areas, and for an overview of textiles for fire and heat protection the reader should refer in particular to a recent article by this author. In this chapter, the focus will be only on high performance textiles in which fire and heat protection are essential requirements. 

High performance textiles for industrial filtration 245 Table 7.4 Fibres and their properties (liquid filtration)... 

Anon. (1996), Fibres from chicken feathers . High Performance Textiles, July. 

Anon. (1995), Combining meltblown polymer fibres and down . High Performance Textiles, April. 

On the other side, the textile industry takes a considerable leap in the field of the strong added-value textiles, mainly in the high-performance textile and fibre sectors. The use of new materials, development of new structures, as well as the development of new integration processes make it possible to develop supports able to convey information, while being based most of the time on properties of electric conduction. These new achievements of the textile industry enable direct electronic device integration into the textile structure, therefore modifying the functionality of the apparel. Besides the main apparel functions, which are protection and passive communication, the clothes become a second skin or the interface with specific functions between the individual and his environment. 

Kothari, V. K. (2004). Fibre applications in technical textiles. In Proceedings of international conference on high performance textiles and apparels — HPTEX 2004. July 7—9, 2004, Kumaraguru college of technology, Coimbatore — 641 006, India. 

Stegmaier, T. High-performance and high-functional fibres and textiles, in Textiles in Sports, editor R. Shishoo, CRC Press, Boca Ration, FL (2005)... 

Of the available textile reinforcements (woven, braided, knitted, stitched), many can now be considered to be mature applications. For example, non-crimp fabric (carbon fibre) is used to manufacture the A380 rear pressure bulkhead at 240kg, in mass, 6.2m long, 5.5m wide, and 1.6m deep, this can be classed as a large structure at a smaller length scale, braided carbon fibres are now used regularly for high performance bicycle frames. 

Once heat is absorbed by a textile fibre, it may promote physical or chemical change or both. All organic fibre-forming polymers will eventually thermally degrade at or above a threshold temperature often defined as the pyrolysis temperature, T, sometimes influenced by the presence of oxygen in the air. Typical values of T are listed in Table 8.1 for the more common and selected high performance fibres. Once heated... 

BunseU AR, Berger M-H. Ceramic fibres. In Hearle JWS, editor. High performance fibres. Cambridge Woodhead Publishing 2001. p. 239—58. Textile Institute. 

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