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Course Name	Turkish	Dokunmamış Kumaşlar
	English	Non-Woven Fabrics
Course Code	TEK 455E	Credit	Lecture (hour/week)	Recitation (hour/week)	Laboratory (hour/week)
Semester	7	3	-	-	-
Course Language		English
Course Coordinator		İlkay Özsev Yüksek
Course Objectives		To teach the students, 1. nonwoven production methods and product properties, 2. how to determine the end-use according to nonwoven type. 3. the current situation of nonwoven industry in Turkey and in the world.
Course Description		Types, properties, production methods, end-uses of nonwovens; raw materials used in the production of nonwovens (polymers, fibres, binders). Web formation methods; dry-laying (mechanical, aerodymanic, mechanical-aerodynamic combination), wet-laying, spunlaying (spunbonding, meltblown, elektrospinning). Web consolidation methods ;mechanical (needlepunching, stitchbonding, spunlacing), thermal (calender, hot through-air, infrared, ultrasonic), chemical (empragnation, printing, foam, spraying). Web finishing methods; chemical (dyeing, printing, coating, lamination, bleaching, etc.) and mechanical (calendering, brushing, embossing, creping, crushing). Tufting production method. Current situation of nonwoven industry in Turkey and the world.
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