Tensile Creep Behaviour of Light weight Jute Non-woven

摘要

Lightweight jute non-woven of 150 to 250 g/m~2 are used in different applications ranging from mulching to soil conservation in which its tensile creep property plays an important role. Hence with a view to assess its importance, a simple method has been developed to study the creep behaviour of light weight jute non-woven fabric. 10, 20, 30 and 40% of breaking load have been considered to measure the creep behaviour of these jute non-wovens. In the present study, efforts have been made to determine the effect of creep load, duration of test, and fabric weight on tensile creep of jute non-woven. The results reveal that, the tensile creep increases with time both in machine and cross directions of the samples for all levels of creep load, but 250 g/m~2 fabric could not sustain the creep load in machine direction beyond 30% of the breaking load.