A STUDY ON THE FRICTION BEHAVIOUR OF SPUNBOND NONWOVENS USED WITH DIFFERENT WEIGHTS

In addition to having the characteristics required according to their areas of use, fabrics must also show sufficient resistance to potential frictions that they are to be exposed to. Friction of a textile material with another textile material, or its friction with a non-textile surface, can cause losses in performance characteristics like fabric resistance; it also affects the appearance of fabric by creating some physical changes. In this paper, an experiment mechanism working based on horizontal principle which was designed and developed that has been used. Nonwoven fabrics produced with spunbond method, which were base on different weights of polypropylene (PP) and polyester (PES) used (filament-laying and thermal bonding). Samples with three different weights were used and an attempt was made to examine the friction characteristics of nonwoven fabrics. At the end of the study, it has been observed that fabric-abrasive wool fabric friction generated negative affecting of surface characteristics and friction coefficient value, and fabric-metal friction environment created less negative effect for friction surface and lowest friction coefficient.