Investigation of the Effect of Yarn Locations on Color Properties of Polyester Automotive Upholstery Woven Fabrics after Abrasion

Abstract

Automotive upholstery fabrics have direct contacts with the human beings in the cars and they affect the comfort of the journeys. As one-quarter of the human body contacts Abstract Automobile upholstery fabrics are regularly exposed to various deformations because of their usage conditions in the cars. Abrasion, being one of these deformations, occurs by various rubbing forces such as sitting, cleaning, etc. In addition to the physical deformations occurring in the structure of fabrics, such as fiber and yarn breakage, pilling or rupture by force, changes in appearance and consequently color differences are possible results of rubbing. In this study, polyester woven fabrics that are used in the automotive industry as car interior furnishing were investigated at different abrasion levels (500, 5000, 10,000 and 20,000) and changes in color and percentage reflectance values were determined. The polyester fabrics differed from each other by their warp and weft densities, warp and weft yarn counts and fabric weave patterns. The fabric that has been abraded in each level was compared with its original state and reflectance and color difference values were determined. It was observed that surface color coordinates changed as the yarn float length of the different weave patterns changed and color differences increased as the yarn float lengths increased. Compact fabric structures with high yarn crossing numbers (yarn intersections) were found resistant to the effects of abrasion in color terms. It was concluded that the fiber ends which occurred on the fabric surfaces after abrasion affected the reflectance behavior of the surfaces in different manners regarding the compactness of woven structures.

Surface roughness properties of polyester woven fabrics after abrasion

“…Akgun et al reported that compact fabric structures with high yarn crossing numbers (yarn intersections) were more resistant to the effects of abrasion. It was concluded that fiber ends which occurred on fabric surfaces after abrasion affected the surfaces in different manners regarding the compactness of woven structures (Akgun, Becerir, & Alpay, 2006;Akgun, Becerir, Alpay, Karaaslan, & Eke, 2010). The high tenacity of polyester fibers and continuous polyester yarns caused some fuzz but no pilling formation on the fabric surfaces (Akgun, Becerir, & Alpay, 2007).…”

Thermo-physiological properties and burning behaviours of automotive upholstery fabrics woven with aramid and wool yarns

“…Furthermore, from our review of the studies relating to automotive upholstery fabrics, it was seen that the majority of them examined the physical properties of the fabrics [58–61]. It has been only very recently that studies investigating comfort properties of automotive upholstery fabrics have begun to appear in the literature [62–65].…”

Assessing Color Differences of Cotton Fabrics Made From Different Yarns After Abrasion

“…of the effects of an increased number of abrasion cycles on color values of knitted and woven fabrics made from different fiber materials such as cotton, wool, polyester, viscose and different yarn structures in different fabric construction parameters [4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11]. Alpay et al [5] showed that fabrics with ring spun and open-end spun weft yarns differ from each other in both reflectance and color difference values, which tend to increase as the abrasion cycles increase.…”