Journal
MATERIALS
Volume 14, Issue 7, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ma14071666
Keywords
thermal aging; high tenacity; polyester fiber; mechanical properties; industrial yarn
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By studying the effects of aging temperature and time on the mechanical and surface structural properties of high tenacity polyester yarn, it was found that aging time and temperature influence the surface structure, tenacity, and elongation properties of the fiber.
Textile materials produced from a high tenacity industrial polyester fiber are most widely used in the mechanical rubber goods industry to reinforce conveyor belts, tire cords, and hoses. Reinforcement of textile rubber undergoes a vulcanization process to adhere the textile materials with the rubber and to enhance the physio-mechanical properties of the product. The vulcanization process has an influence on the textile material being used as a reinforcement. In this work, the effects of aging temperature and time on the high tenacity polyester yarn's mechanical and surface structural properties were investigated. An experiment was carried out on a pre-activated high tenacity polyester yarn of different linear densities, by aging the yarn specimens under various aging temperatures of 140, 160, 200, and 220 degrees C for six, twelve, and thirty-five minutes of aging time. The tensile properties and surface structural change in the yarns pre- and post-aging were studied. The investigation illustrates that aging time and temperature influence the surface structure of the fiber, tenacity, and elongation properties of the yarn. Compared to unaged yarn, an almost five times higher percentage of elongation was obtained for the samples aged at 220 degrees C for 6 min, while the lowest tenacity was obtained for the sample subjected to aging under 220 degrees C for 35 min.
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