This document provides information about the application of textiles in aircraft, including the materials used and testing processes. It discusses how textiles are used to cover aircraft structures and reinforce plywood, with a focus on improving passenger safety and comfort. A variety of textile materials are used for seats, seat belts, curtains, carpets, blankets, and pilot airbags, with specifications provided for fabrics like nylon, polyester, and wool. Essential textile tests are also outlined. The document concludes by discussing fibre and fabric reinforced composites used in modern aircraft like the Boeing 787, highlighting common matrix and reinforcing materials like glass, wood, carbon, and aramid fibres that improve properties such as strength, heat resistance

1. Application of Textile on Air
Class Presentation
8th Semester B.tech in
Department of jute &fibre technology
By
Ipsita Majumder
Roll Number:-98/JFT/091016

2. Introduction
The application of textiles in Air is a term used for the
material used & the process of covering aircraft structures.
It is also used for reinforcing plywood structures. The
more effort is being put into design of aircraft interiors to
make them more passenger ‘friendly’.
Increased safety is also being researched to make seats
stronger & bulk head airbags are also plays a vital role in
Aircraft . The main technical challenges are safety mainly
with respect to flame retardency & weight saving. So that
furnishings & equipment are refurbished regularly or
when signs of wear are evident.

3. Different Textile materials used in Aircraft

4. Properties:
• Fabric coverings provide a light airproof skin in lifting & control
surfaces of the Aircraft.
• The seat coverings must have the soil release properties .
• The seat belt must last lifetime without any significant
deterioration.
• Curtains should have UV protective facility.
• Carpets must be extremely hard wearing to cope with the volume
of foot of traffic.
• The blanket should have softer feel, protect against cold & soil
during journey.
• Pillows should be made as per as the comfort of the passenger
with less stain & good cleanability.
• Aircraft lifting airbags have high tear strength, high antiseam
slippage & controlled air permeability.

5. Fabrics used in Aircraft
Grey fabric Aircraft seat fabrics Aircraft lifting airbags
Floor covering Fly bag luggage
furnishing cloth
seamless fabric

6. Specifications of the material used:
• Nylon & Butyrate dope used for adhesive in Aircraft
fabric covering.
• Woven wool or Wool/nylon blends of 350-450 g/sq.meter
are used for seat covering fabrics.
• Polyester yarns of typically 320 ends of 1100 dtex or 260
ends of 1670 dtex yarn are used to make seat belts.
• The carpets are generally made of Wool & Nylon fibres.
• Nylon 4,6 (Akzo), Nylon 6,6 (210,420 & 840 D),
Polyester & Nylon 6 has been introduced to make
airbags.
• The pilot chute is an umbrella type , 40” inches in
diameter & is made from nylon duck.

7. Essential Testing's Applied:
•Colour fastness
•Crocking(wet
&dry)
• Light fastness
•Abrasion
•Pilling
•Snagging
•Tear Strength
•Tensile strength/
breaking &
elongation
•Stretch & set
Pilot chute

8. Aircraft fire containment
Bomb proof cloth
•Air permeability test
•Stain repellency
•Resistance to micro‐organisms
•Dimensional Stability test
•Flammability resistance test
•Water wicking test
•Compression
•Stiffness testing
•Cleanability test

9. Fibre and fabric reinforced composites used in modern aircraft body:
The latest Boeing 787 Dreamliner

10. Different Fibres Reinforced Composites in Aircraft construction:-
The fibre reinforced polymer is made by polymer
matrix reinforced with fibres.
Reinforcing
material
Most common
Matrix material
Properties
Improved.
•Glass fibres UP, EP, PA, PC, PEM,
PBT, PP & VE
Strength, Heat
resistance & Elasticity.
•Wood fibres PE, PP, ABS, HDPE &
PLA
Flexural strength,
Tensile Modulus &
Tensile strength.
•Carbon & Aramid
fibres
EP, UP, VE & PA Elasticity, Tensile
strength, Compression
strength & Electrical
strength.

12. Thank you