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Handbook of Properties of Textile and Technical Fibres, Second Edition introduces tensile properties and failure and testing of fibers, also examining tensile properties and the failure of natural fibers, such as cotton, hemp, flax, agave, wool and silk. Next, the book discusses the tensile properties and failure of synthetic fibers, ranging from polyamide, polyester, polyethylene and carbon fibers. Chapters provide a general background of the fiber, including its manufacture, microstructure, factors that affect tensile properties and methods to improve tensile failure. With its distinguished editor and international contributors, this book is an important reference for fiber scientists, textile technologists, engineers and academics.
List of contents
1. Introduction to the science of fibers
2. Testing and characterization of fibers
Part One Animal fibres
3. Properties of wool
4. Physical, chemical, and tensile properties of cashmere, mohair, alpaca, and other rare animal fibers
5. Silk: fibers, films, and compositesdtypes, processing, structure, and mechanics
6. Engineering properties of spider silk
Part Two Plant fibres
7. Tensile properties of cotton fibers: importance, research, and limitations
8. Tensile properties of flax fibers
9. Hemp, jute, banana, kenaf, ramie, sisal fibers
Part Three Regenerated fibres
10. Regenerated cellulosic fibers
11. Structure and behavior of collagen fibers
12. The chemistry, manufacture, and tensile behavior of polyamide fibers
13. Tensile failure of polyester fibers
14. Tensile properties of polypropylene fibers
15. Polyacrylonitrile fibers
16. Tensile fatigue of thermoplastic fibers
Part Four High performance reinforcing synthetic fibres
17. Liquid crystalline organic fibers and their mechanical behavior
18. The manufacture, properties, and applications of high-strength, high-modulus polyethylene fibers
19. The structure and properties of glass fibers
20. Basalt fibers
21. The properties of carbon fibers
22. Small-diameter silicon carbide fibers
23. Continuous oxide fibers
24. Fibers made by chemical vapor deposition
About the author
Dr Anthony Bunsell is Research Professor responsible for studies in the fields of fibre reinforcements and fibre composites at the Materials Centre of the Ecole des Mines de Paris. He is also Professor at the University of Nebraska Lincoln. He has authored more than 250 papers in international scientific journals and has produced fifteen books on materials science, composites and fibres. He has received a number of rewards for his research and was the first person to be made life Fellow of the French Association for Composite Materials (AMAC) and is only one of very few recipients of the title World Fellow of the International Committee on Composite Materials.
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"The Handbook of Properties of Textile and Technical Fibres provides a thorough and authoritative overview of the properties of a wide range of natural and synthetic fibres." --Asian Dyer
