Non-woven Fabrics

Abstract

Out of different technical textiles, needle-punched nonwoven is one of the promising technical textiles which has wide ranges of applications. This present chapter deals with jute and synthetic fibre-based needle-punched nonwoven. The design and manufacturing of such nonwoven and proper characterization of the developed fabrics based on the end use has been covered. Jute and jute-based material has some added advantages in certain technical applications like composites, agro-textiles, geotextiles, etc. Various machine parameters as well as processing parameters have been varied to design the fabrics for certain end uses. Applications of advanced modelling techniques like statistical and artificial neural network modelling have also been considered to achieve optimum properties in the fabric for certain end uses. Hence, the overall aspects of designing to end uses of the fabrics, considering its development and characterization, have been covered in this chapter.