An Overview of Nonwoven Product Development and Modelling of Their Properties

Nonwoven fabric formation is highly emerging technology for production of cheapest material of textile for different purposes. Nonwovens used in garments, home textiles, decorative purposes and technical textiles with their own performance requirements which will be discussed in this paper. The articles, thus produced in the final stage of textile called making up process i.e. nonwoven product development will be delivered to customer or they can be utilized as semi-finished goods for non-textile production and assembly processes such as textile filters. The important modelling parameters essential for nonwovens products are pore size distribution rather than porosity, tensile strength for reinforcement applications in civil engineering, bending rigidity, permeability to fluids according to the purpose and filtration properties with minimum clogging.