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Textiles in aerospace applications
By  : Dr. Faheem Uddin

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The time of thinking fibers as source of producing clothing and home textile products is still vibrant in the market, however, the wave of innovation is inundating higher. Land, water and air- all are witnessing the fascinating services of textiles. Today, it is one of the gigantic disciplines of product development for engineering applications. In terms of the material performance, textiles can be seen working at the interdisciplinary level by offering the several technical advantages that may not be accumulated in a single material traditionally known.

The companies and countries not cultivating any natural fiber crop; or least significant in such activity are in a position of making milestone achievement through innovative development, and producing engineered textiles. Being resourceful in bringing up innovation with an enhanced research and technology incubation cycle the industrialized countries, including USA, Western Europe, and Japan made better advancement, however, the Asian achievers China and India are becoming significant.


What has turned the textile materials to be in demanding position for out of home articles! It is the functional character in producing the desired performance. There are several factors supporting the increased consumption of textiles in special applications. Over the past several decades, textile fibers have captured an inevitable position in composition and as an integral part of product structure.


The advancement in material science has placed an increased emphasis in finding novel or innovative substitutes to excel in performance the existing composites. Lighter in weight, flexible in handling, soft in touch, comparable in strength with metals, modifiable in size and shape; and all these characteristics in an affordable price had provided the interesting novel applications to textile materials. Therefore, it is not unusual to realize a stream of innovative fibrous composition in above and beneath the land space.


Illuminating the advanced value in textiles has an influence on traditional growing country to appreciate the spirit of innovation, place mind set beyond yarn and grey cloth, and attempt to generate an enhanced contribution to techno- socio development of country.


Today, the textile fibers are significantly serving the places including air craft, aerospace, health care, automotives, geo construction, transportation and physical protection. There are several textile articles or constituting units from the construction and design of cabin to highly specialized clothing products including g- suits for pilots, and entry suits for space shuttle where significant contribution of textile fibers is evident.


Variation in environmental conditions; and gravitational force in aerospace operations posed specific requirements for safety and functional performance. Therefore, the textile clothing being next to skin has pivotal standing.

It is not unusual to see the interest of NASA, USA, through the research and development activities in the production and testing of textile articles for Mars Exploration Mission. Aerospace textile is an area of technical textiles that covers special finished products to engineered textiles. It includes the textile containing articles for specific functional requirements to work in aircrafts, space shuttles, lunar and mars mission, and space transportation.


The world market of technical textile products was estimated to 16.7 million tones in 2000 with the value of US $ 92.88 billions. This was projected for the year of 2010 to 23.77 million tones worth of US $ 127 billions (1). The state of the art technology in Europe and USA coupled with the availability of highly trained and educated work force provide definite advantage in the development of technical textiles and the ease of capturing the market. In these regions textile products falling under the category of technical textiles approach to 40 % of the total textile manufacturing.


 

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 Published On :  Thursday, August 07, 2008

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