Textile Advances in the Automotive Industry (Woodhead Publishing Series in Textiles)

With its distinguished editor and a team of contributors from both academia and industry, this book provides an in-depth review of the design and development of automotive textiles and recent advances made in technical textiles. It discusses issues such as automotive textile requirements from a car producer’s perspective, mapping the automotive textile supply chain, advances in textile fabrics including nonwoven fabrics, and recycling issues. It also covers performance and style of interior textiles, materials and design for car seats, and the reduction of interior noise in vehicles. The book explores important safety applications and assesses how textiles can be used in automotive bodywork.