Abrasive Elements and Abrasion Resistance Tests for Car Seat Upholstery

Jerković, Ivona; Pallarès, Josep; Raso, Mònica Ardanuy; Capdevila, X.G.

doi:10.1177/155892501300800304

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“…It was found that cars with ramie blended seat covers were more comfortable based on the subjective evaluation collected from a questionnaire of five questions and these results were consistent with the objective measurements [15]. Jerkovic et.al examined Martindale, Schopper, and Transverse abrasion resistance testers and the methods were compared with each other using P320, P400, P600 abrasive papers [16]. Mecit et.al investigated automotive industry applications for recyclable products.…”

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Comfort-Related Properties of Double-Layered Woven Car Seat Fabrics

Ünal

Kayseri

Mecit³

2021

Autex Research Journal

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Seat upholstery fabrics for vehicles are crucial products as technical textiles in motor vehicles make up approximately 15% of the total manufactured technical textiles worldwide and more than 50% of the production belongs to the woven fabrics because of their appropriate properties for this application. The current work presents the comfort-related properties of the woven fabrics designed to be used in automotive seat upholstery. For this aim, double-layered woven fabrics were produced with four different process variables such as bottom layer pattern, number of interlacing warps in a unit report, number of interlacing picks per top warp, and number of weft skips by using Taguchi experimental design. Besides handle related properties, such as circular bending rigidity, surface roughness properties, and thermo physiological comfort related properties that include air permeability, thermal resistance, and moisture management properties were measured and analyzed based on Taguchi experimental analysis.

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confidence: 68%

Comfort-Related Properties of Double-Layered Woven Car Seat Fabrics

Ünal

Kayseri

Mecit³

2021

Autex Research Journal

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“…Automotive textiles have a large share in the global technical textiles market, which is comprised of seat upholstery, floor covering, headliners, door coverings, pillar coverings, safety belts, side panel coverings, airbags, tires, sound, and thermal insulators [1,2]. Automotive interior textiles are usually made of woven, warp knitted, weft knitted, laminated and nonwoven fabrics [3,4]. The seat upholsteries are of great importance, due to their effect on the driver and passenger comfort, and also the aesthetic appeal of the interior scheme.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Investigating the effect of fabric and lamination-foam properties on the air permeability of laminated headrest fabrics. Tekstil ve Konfeksiyon, 31 (4), 235-241. Car seat upholstery is generally made of different structures. The one layer of seat upholstery is the lamination foam, mostly made of PU due to the comfort and protection level served by PUs which is not achieved by any other single structure [5].…”

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Investigating the Effect of Fabric and Lamination-Foam Properties on the Air Permeability of Laminated Headrest Fabrics

Aksoy¹,

Işılak

Ertürk

et al. 2021

Tekstil Ve Konfeksiyon

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In automotive industry, vehicle seat has been came first to mind at beginning of components that is encounter directly with customer. The customers have many expectations in terms of aesthetics, functionality and comfort from the seats of vehicle. When considering comfort in car seats, backrest, cushion, headrest foam and upholstery are the place of at the top of the list. The seat upholstery in vehicle has a composite structure by including fabric, lamination foam and backing scrim. This composite structure is combined with the foam by using techniques such as traditional method or in-situ technology. In traditional method, the upholstery is trimmed on the product’s foam. In in-situ technology, PU is injected into ready-placed upholstery. The advantage of in-stu technology is to make a perfect trimming for curved foam designs. Especially in headrest, it is preferred concave shapes for distance that effects on comfort and also safety between the driver's head and the seat headrest. In in-situ process, an overflow failure may occure from the upholstery surface of injected foam including polyurethane (PU) with high pressure during process. Overflow failure is not required by main automobile producers for aesthetical aspect and quality point of view. In this study, it is evaluated the effect of lamination foam and fabric in composite structure on overflow failure. In evaluation of overflow behaviour of PU injected foam, fabric types and lamination foam types were tested regarding weight measurement, peeling strength and air permeability. Final products as headrest were obseved by 40x microscop to evaluate the overflow failure.

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“…Hence, automakers are increasingly favoring the usage of weft-knitted fabrics for different interior components, such as seat covers, dashboard covers, side panels, etc. Some researchers have extended their studies to focus on improving the performance of fabrics used in the automotive industry, such as resistance to abrasion [ 10 , 11 , 12 ], tensile and tear properties [ 9 , 13 , 14 ], thermal stability [ 15 , 16 ], flame retardance [ 17 , 18 ] and physiological properties [ 19 ]. Researchers have also focused on other functional properties of automotive interior materials, such as sound absorption [ 20 , 21 , 22 , 23 ] and water and oil repellency [ 24 ].…”

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Functional Investigation on Automotive Interior Materials Based on Variable Knitted Structural Parameters

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With the rapid development of technical textiles, more and more researchers have focused on developing high performance textiles to meet various needs. The automotive industry is a major market for technical textiles. Compared to other types of fabric, weft-knitted fabric has good extensibility and elasticity, as well as a hand-feel, and it is gradually becoming the preferred type of interior fabric for automobiles. This paper aims to develop an automotive fabric with good comfort and durability. Sixteen types of weft-knitted fabrics with eight different structures and two different materials (draw textured polyester and textured polyamide yarn) were fabricated using a computerized flat knitting machine. Their durability and level of comfort were examined by measuring the tensile and tear strengths, abrasion resistance and air permeability. A fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method was employed to compare the comprehensive properties of the fabric. The results indicated that the overall performance of DTPA fabric was better than DTPE fabric, and an optimum structure was selected for an automotive interior. Meanwhile, we found that the air permeability of the fabric could be increased by using tuck stitches and that the strength and dimensional stability of fabric could be increased by adding tuck stitches and weft-insert yarns. The findings contribute to the field of technical textiles and provide ideas for the development of high-performance textiles.

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Abrasive Elements and Abrasion Resistance Tests for Car Seat Upholstery

Cited by 6 publications

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Comfort-Related Properties of Double-Layered Woven Car Seat Fabrics

Comfort-Related Properties of Double-Layered Woven Car Seat Fabrics

Investigating the Effect of Fabric and Lamination-Foam Properties on the Air Permeability of Laminated Headrest Fabrics

Functional Investigation on Automotive Interior Materials Based on Variable Knitted Structural Parameters

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