Journal of Textile Science and Technology

Journal of Textile Science and Technology

Simulation of concentrated tensile test on the spunbond nonwoven fabrics using finite element method

Document Type : Research/ Original/ Regular Article

Author
Morteza Vadood
Department of Textile Engineering, Yazd University, Yazd, Iran
10.22034/jtst.2025.519995.1498
Abstract
Nonwoven fabrics are now used in a wide range of industries. Given that these fabrics do not have a weaving process like woven or knitted fabrics, investigating their behavior under different loads has always been an important topic in the textile engineering. Many papers have been published on the behavior of these fabrics when subjected to the distributed forces, but less studies have been conducted on the concentrated ones. Thus, the behavior of spunbond polypropylene nonwoven fabrics in the concentrated tensile test has been attempted to be simulated in this paper. To this aim, four fabrics weighing 60 g/m2, 70 g/m2, 90 g/m2, and 105 g/m2 were prepared, and the behavior of each fabric was measured in three directions known as the machine direction (production of fabrics is in that direction of machine), machine cross direction (direction perpendicular to the machine direction), and diagonal direction (diagonal direction between machine and cross directions). The fabric was then modeled as a layered composite, where each layer was determined by the fabric behavior in one of the mentioned directions. Finally, the error in estimating the fabric strength between the simulations and actual concentrated tensile tests was observed to be about 1 to 17%.
Keywords
Finite Element Method
Spunbond Nonwoven
Layered Structure
Concentrated Load
Tensile Test

Subjects

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  • Receive Date 29 April 2025
  • Revise Date 31 October 2025
  • Accept Date 16 November 2025