Reduction of the thermoplastic melt hazard of polyester fabric through the application of a radiation cross-linking technique

✍ Scribed by Stuart Elton

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1998
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 112 KB
• Volume: 22
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0308-0501
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1099-1018(199801/02)22:1<19::aid-fam631>3.0.co;2-5

✦ Synopsis

This paper describes how a standard polyester cloth was irradiated in the presence of a cross-linking reagent to produce a fabric whose thermoplastic melt-drip behaviour had been modified to that of a charring thermoset material.