Introduction to Technical Textile by NTU

Technical Textile Society-NTU

Lecture Delivered 16,Jan’14 Special Thanks

Mr. Muneeb Tahir (Batch 2009)

Regards: Hassan Shahzad President 2013-14 Technical Textile Society-NTU Group for research project discussions: https://www.fb.com/groups/technicaltextiles Page: https://www.fb.com/tts.fsd



Reformation in global trends


Technical textiles in Pakistan

• Although Pakistan’s potential in the field of technical textiles is immense but it is in the developing phase. Pakistan has always been a formidable force in the field of conventional cotton based textiles.


Difference b/w conventional &technical textiles • Unlike conventional textiles used traditionally for clothing or furnishing,

technical textiles are used basically on account of their specific physical and functional properties.

Conventional Textiles Technical Textiles


Agrotech • Textiles used in agriculture,

horticulture, forestry, farming and fishing


• Agrotech sheets are also used for soil reclamation.

• These sheets can contain soil erosion problem and decompose into plant nutrients.


•Provide protection against frost, wind,

excessive sunlight.

• Avoids crop wastage due to better symmetric arrangement.

• Provide

protection against weeds.

Agrotech


Bird Protection Nets


Biodegradable Plant Pots


Buildtech

• Buildtech involves textile composites used in building industry.


A revolution has been introduced to the building industry by the use of

textile based composites.


As Thermal and Noise Insulators


Structures built of textile materials


Textile Materials as Concrete Reinforcement

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Now more durable, reliable, cheaper and resilient structures can be made.






Designing of Wind Turbines

• Owing to light weight which is required for maximum energy production.






Ultimate remedy

• Buildtech has addressed the problems commonly faced in building industry.

• Like weakening of structures due to rusting, seepages or natural calamities .


Properties

• Strength

• Resilience

• Resistance to degradation by chemicals and pollutants in the air


Clothtech

• Components of clothing and footwear.

• It includes the most promising field/future of textiles “SMART TEXTILES”.


Smart textiles

• Electronics embedded on garments i.e. wearable electronics.


Smart textiles

• A piece of e-Textile weighing 0.3 kgs the approximate weight of a T-shirt could hold up to three times more energy than a cell phone battery.


Smart textiles


Military advancements

• South Korean military has taken a gigantic leap forward.

• It aims to integrate smart textile technology in the uniforms of it’s military personnel.


Objective

• The objective is to create a military uniform that integrates information technology.


Heat sensitive textiles


Shape Memory Textiles


Shape Memory Textiles


Astronaut suits

• Cosmic apparel used by astronauts in space or on the surface of a planet.


Cosmic apparel

• These are supplied with oxygen, safety from solar radiations due to absence of atmosphere in space and many other life support systems.


Hug jackets/shirts


Musical shirts

• Electronic touch sensitive drum embedded on a garment.


Self luminous textiles

• The textiles for disco clubs of future.


Geotech

As implied from the name Geo textiles are the textiles which work in contact with Earth’s basic elements; soil, rocks, water etc.


Dams • Geotextiles are used in

the construction of dams as concrete reinforcements.

• Used either in powdered or compact form.


Roads

• Geotextiles are being used in the construction of roads.

• Lahore Kalar-kahar Motorway.


Mechanism behind road construction

• Geotextiles fabric sheets are used due to their inherent stiffness.

• This does not let the roads deform easily, even if they are subjected to heavy traffic flow.


Prevention of soil erosion

• Lining of riverbanks can be done with Geotextiles to prevent soil erosion due to floods or other climatic conditions.


A chance lost!

• The damages due to recent floods could have been curtailed to a certain extent if geotextiles were given a chance!



• Erosion causes soil’s humus layer to erode away leaving the land barren/unavailable for cultivation.



• Geotextile sheets are used in plains, hilly or coastal areas to prevent soil erosion.


Geotech market

• Asia and other developing regions of the world are much likely to see a sustained infrastructure development programs.


Geotech market


Hometech • Home textiles includes

household textiles.

• One such article which has an interesting property is fragrant curtains.


Function and Mechanism

• Whenever there is some undesirable odor in the environment of a room these curtains would release fragrance to counter that odor.


Decoration purposes

• Litracon is also used as decoration article in home textiles as table lamps etc.


Hometech market

• The market is fairly mature in Western economies.

• The growth in emerging economies such as India and China is expected to accelerate.


Indutech

• The textile materials used in industries are known as indutech.

• Generally industech are used in purifying poisonous gases at high temperature.


Used in chimneys

• Most poisonous gases are discharged into the atmosphere at very high temperatures.

• Common materials can’t withstand such temperatures without melting.


Indutech has the remedy

• To solve this problem heat resistant textile materials with small pore sizes are used to filter hot poisonous gases.


Used as high strength ropes

• Indutech ropes are also used in industrial units.

• For lifting heavy weights and pulleys.

• These have high tensile strength.


As noise absorbents

• Some Industrial textiles are used at industrial scale as noise absorbents too.


Medtech

• Absorbents, Bandages: Plaster of Paris Bandage, orthopedics bandage, etc


Alginate bandages

• Alginate bandages can be removed without even the patient knowing about its removal and heals the wound faster.


Alginate Bandages “A Revolution”

• Wounds are not damaged as happens mostly when cotton bandage is removed.

• These bandages find their usage specially in burn care centers for acute burn injuries.


Germ absorbents

• Non woven germ absorbent wipes on handles of hospital doors.


Special tremor disease

• Boxer Muhammad Ali has the same disease.

• Due to hand tremor patient can’t carry out their daily choirs.


Medtech to the rescue!

• Special fabric gloves designed from piezoelectric material are designed to nullify the effect of these tremors.


In Transplantation

• Artificial kidney, Artificial liver, Artificial heart, Mechanical lung, grafts, artificial skin and bones are produced for transplantation.


Soothing Broken Bones and Hearts

• Textile based grafts and replacements of broken or damaged bones are also available for transplantation.


Magic healing

• Special environment for the treatment of various diseases like Asthma is required.

• Humidity, temperature or microbial activity is kept in check.


Magic healing

• Now we have such textiles available which can control these factors.

• Example of Khewra mine and a hospital situated in it for the treatment of Asthma.


How its done?

• The walls of the room of the patient is lined with fabric sheets made of these textiles.


Hernia

• The disease known as hernia makes the abdomen muscles weak.


Hernia

• Weak muscles cannot even hold the pressure of the intestines.


Development in Treatment Method

• The scientists have carried out the preparation of artificial hernia mesh (a fabric).


Mechanism

• It lets the abdomen muscles develop and takes up the pressure.

• Instead of letting it being transferred to the slowly developing abdomen muscles.


Curing hernia

• In this way the weakened muscles get time to develop fully.


Eye lenses

• Eye lenses are examples of technical textile materials.

• Very few of us know this.


Eye Cornea

• Recently artificial eye cornea has been developed with textile fibers.

• Cornea is the most important part of human eye.


Hope in sight

• Transplanting cornea in place of damaged or diseased cornea of a patient can give light to someone’s eye.


Relief for sugar patients

• Recently a major breakthrough for sugar patients has been the manufacturing of micro level fabric based drugs encapsulating insulin.


Mechanism

• It has an interesting mechanism.

• Capsules are injected into the blood stream by an injection.


Life of capsules

• The life of these capsules is 6 months at present.

• After this time span it is dissolved into non toxic materials.


No daily injections

• The greatest advantage of this technique is that patient doesn’t have to take insulin injections daily!


Technical textiles, no boundaries

• These are the marvels of technical textiles in the field of medial sciences.


Medtech market

• Strong growth potential in developed countries based longer-living and increased awareness about healthcare issues.


Mobiltech

• The textile materials in automobiles.


Automobiles

• Seat covers, seat belts, car carpets, air bags, tyre cord, composite panels, car mats (although

they look like made of rubber).


Military use

• A very interesting application of such fabrics was devised by various countries.


Main idea

• It used these fabrics in the manufacturing of inflatable armored vehicles, tanks and even fleets of warships.


Objective

• To distract, confuse and deceive enemy in the event of war with

the original ones.


Interesting thing

• Inflatable decoys can also be detected on radar by the enemy as originals.


Carbon fiber as wonder fiber

• Carbon fiber is being presented as a replacement to aluminum alloys in fighter and commercial jet manufacturing.


New chapter of aviation history

• Boeing’s Airbus 380.

• Such fighter or commercial planes would be light weight and fuel efficient.


Eyebrow Raising Facts; Wonder Fiber

• It is much lighter than aluminum.

• Its single fiber is far thin than even human hair but still its strength surpasses that of steel.


Realization of Potential

• USA has devised a plan to shift 75% of its military vehicles to textile composite based structure.


Precious oil

• It is converting its military vehicles to Ethanol instead of gasoline.

• Ethanol is not as strong as gasoline.


Remedy

• To counter this problem the weight has to be reduced using textile based composites in vehicle structure.


Oekotech

• Textiles for environmental protection are known as Oekotech.(GREEN TEXTILES)


An interesting application

• Used effectively against oil spillages in coastal areas or in open oceans or seas, separates water and oil.(otherwise it is harmful to ecosystem)


Nothing goes to waste

• Separated oil can be used again, while on the other hand disasters can be averted.


In cigarette filters

• I bet you didn’t realize that over four trillion cigarette filters are manufactured annually.

• Cigarette filters are non woven textile materials.


Use of cigarettes filters

• These filters filter the tar and nicotine.

• Although handsome amount of it is inhaled but still it does filter these substance to some extent.

• These are carcinogenic materials.


Packtech

• Textiles used in packing materials are called packtech.

• Even tea bags (no one ever thinks about it) which are non woven fabrics.


Protech

• Heat resistant clothing for scientists studying volcanic eruptions.


Fire suits

• Fire men’s protective clothing.


High tech military apps.

• Clothing against cold (like clothing of army personnel in Siachin)


High tech military apps.

• Clothing against chemical substances for atomic, chemical and biological warfare specially(gas, liquids, particles)


Mosquito repellant fabrics

• Even mosquito resistant fibers are available in the market to keep mosquitoes away.


For Falcons

• G suits for fighter pilots to coup up with the pressure due to high speed maneuvers in air.


Great domestic opportunity

• Bullet proof jackets, helmets and special boots.

• Pakistani law and order agencies are in great need of protective textiles to counter the law and order situation in country.


Need of the hour

• Local textile industry could exploit this opportunity by manufacturing desired products.

• Hence saving country foreign exchange being wasted on imports of these products.


Sporttech

• A fiber named Coolmax remains cool even at 50⁰C.

• It is used in making track suits for sportsmen and women.


Suits for Deep Sea Divers

• Pressure suits for under water divers are also manufactured by some special types of fibers.


Function of Suits

• These suits help them to acclimatize to the varied pressure levels above and below water level.

• Mentioning of bubble formation disease.


Sporttech Apps. at Home

• In Pakistan technical textile fibers are widely being used specially in Sialkot’s sports industry.


Domestic Sporttech Products

• In manufacturing of hockey sticks and footballs complying with international standards. (little elaboration on the strength of such hockey sticks)


A matter of pride

• 90% graduates in Pakistan’s present textile industry belong to National textile university.


National Textile University

• You have been provided a life changing opportunity to be a part of never failing engine held responsible for Pakistan’s economic growth by destiny itself.


Change approaches

• Now it is up to you to excel, innovate and lead my dear juniors!


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