Hybrid Yarns and Textile Preforming for Thermoplastic Composites

by Alagirusamy; Fangueiro; Ogale; Padaki

• ISBN13: 9781845692926
• ISBN10: 1845692926
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-10-30
• Publisher: Elsevier Science

Summary

The Textile Progress monograph series provides a critical and comprehensive examination of the origination and application of developments in the textile industry and its products. This issue reviews developments in Polymer composites which are increasingly gaining importance as substitute materials for metals in the aerospace, automotive, marine, sporting goods and electronic industries. In past decades, fiber-reinforced composite materials were principally fabricated using thermosetting matrices, with all the associated disadvantages (eg brittleness, lengthy cure cycles and inability to recycle damaged or scrapped parts). Such intrinsic problems have led to the recent development of the thermoplastic matrix composite system, which provides several advantages in terms of mechanical properties and processing. This monograph covers the characterization of hybrid yarns, their structure and properties, and details various types of preforming in the context of the major textile manufacturing techniques (weaving, braiding, knitting etc.). These are described in relation to the practical application of thermoplastic materials in applications within the transport, manufacturing and medical sectors.