- Industry: Textiles
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In nonwoven fabrics, an irregularly shaped grouping of fibers caused by insufficient fiber separation.
Industry:Textiles
In flammability testing, the distance from the edge of the sample exposed to the flame to the upper edge of the charred or void area.
Industry:Textiles
In aerospace textiles, two or more continuous multifilament yarns, the filaments of which have been intermixed with each other without adding twist or otherwise disturbing parallel relationship of the combined filaments. Usually consists of a reinforcing yarn, such as graphite or glass, and a thermoplastic matrix yarn.
Industry:Textiles
Filaments produced by precipitating cellulose dissolved in a solution of copper oxide in ammonia.
Industry:Textiles
Filaments stuck together by design or accident during the extrusion process.
Industry:Textiles
From the French term for blistered, it refers to any fabric whose surface exhibits an irregularly raises blister effect.
Industry:Textiles
Heavy functional and ornamental floor coverings consisting of pile yarns or fibers and a backing system. They may be tufted or woven.
Industry:Textiles
In aerospace textiles, a fabric in which a reinforcing fiber and a matrix fiber are adjacent to each other as one end in the warp and/or filling direction.
Industry:Textiles
An aftertreatment to set the crimp in yarn or fiber. Usually heat and steam are used, although the treatment may be chemical in nature.
Industry:Textiles
An aluminum silicate fiber made by heating aluminum fluoride at 1000¬1200°C with silica and water vapor. The crystals, or “whiskers,” obtained are up to 1 cm long and have high strength. Ceramic fibers are used in reinforced plastics.
Industry:Textiles
