A realistic comparison of biaxial performance of nylon 6,6 and nylon 6 fabrics used in passive restraints—airbags
✍ Scribed by Ramesh Keshavaraj; Richard Wm. Tock; Guy S. Nusholtz
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1996
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 914 KB
- Volume
- 61
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0021-8995
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✦ Synopsis
Nylon has been the material of choice for airbag construction because of its specific strength and dimensional stability during deployment. Of the nylons, nylon 6,6 has been widely used in airbag construction. In this article, we attempted to compare the performance of several commercial nylon 6,6 and nylon 6 fabrics offered, for use, to the auto industry. The performance of four traditional nylon 6,6 fabrics are compared with identical fabrics made from nylon 6 fibers. We used a test procedure championed by Chrysler but was developed in our laboratory called the blister-inflation. This test mimics the biaxial deformation of airbag fabric in a manner similar to the deformation of airbag fabric during actual deployment. Several other engineering properties of interest in airbag application are also addressed in this article for comparison purposes.