Manufacturing Techniques and Mechanical Properties of Recycle Kevlar®/PET Composite Nonwoven

Kevlar® fiber has characteristics of thermostability, high modulus, low elongation, impact resistance, chemical resistance and high performance. Therefore, in this study Kevlar® fiber was used to reinforce the nonwoven fabrics. In this research, the content of the Kevlar® fiber was varied as 0 wt%, 5 wt%, 10 wt%, 20 wt%, and that of 15D PET fiber was changed as 70 wt%, 65 wt%, 60 wt%, 50 wt% accordingly when the Low-Tm polyester fibers was constant as 30 wt%. These fibers were used to manufacture the Kevlar®/PET composite nonwoven by nonwoven processing. Afterwards, the mechanical properties of the Kevlar®/PET composite nonwoven was measured both at cross direction and machine direction.