Automotive Textile Application- Car Designing Part 01

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A ᴘᴀʀᴛ ᴏғ Tᴇᴄʜɴɪᴄᴀʟ Tᴇxᴛɪʟᴇ.

Car interiors are being influenced more than ever by consumers. And this is a growing sector of technical textiles.

They demand the highest comfort, better look, well-designed, and so on. The seats should be comfortable and not cause excess fatigue. In addition, they want cars to be safe and environmentally friendly.

It is estimated that approximately 45 sq meters of textile materials are used in the interior trims of a car, which includes a seating area, Headliners, Side panels, Carpets, Trunks, Door trim, Dash mat, Tires, Safety belts, Airbags, Seat covers, steering wheel covers, car covers, etc.

The common expectancy of the car user is that the auto-interior should have:

1. Good appearance and comfort
2. Easy to maintain
3. Good durability
4. Wrinkle resistance
5. Water and stain proof
6. Flame resistant for safety
7. Low costs.

The main criteria involved in the development of textiles and components in automotive are:

1 Tensile strength
2. Abrasion resistance
3. Pill resistance
4. Air permeability
5. Compression resistance
6. Elasticity
7. Lightfastness at high temperatures
8. Stiffness
9. Ease of cleaning
10. Separation force
11. Dimensional stability
12. Flame resistance
13. Fogging
14. Resistance to adverse climatic conditions.

These things are known to the textile engineers. They learned these things either theoretically or practically.

For maintaining customer requirements, the manufacturer had to use raw materials that were more costly.

And, textile technology is improving day by day. Now, it is possible to ensure more comfortability, durability at low cost.

Hopefully, space will be created for textile engineers to work in the automobile industry.

Reference: Nileshtharval's Blog

Md Zakaria Bin Hossain
Department of Apparel Engineering, 44th Batch
Bangladesh University of Textiles (BUTEX).