Determination of abrasion resistance of automobile upholstery leathers; [Determinarea rezistentei la abraziune a pieilor pentru tapiteria automobilelor]

Isik N.O.; Cireli I.; Koizhaiganova M.

Determination of abrasion resistance of automobile upholstery leathers; [Determinarea rezistentei la abraziune a pieilor pentru tapiteria automobilelor]

Date

2011

Authors

Isik N.O.

Cireli I.

Koizhaiganova M.

Abstract

In recent years, as a result of increasing customer demands such as natural appearance and handle, comfort, luxury and prestige, parallel to technologic improvements in automotive industry, a new trend for using leather in coating and upholstering the interior elements of autos has raised. Leathers and leather goods used in automotive sector are in the leather article group with high performance expectations. However; there has been no consensus about criteria for performance characteristics of automobile upholstery leathers, thereby, each car manufacturer wants to buy leathers according to their own requirements. It is inevitable phenomena that in progressing time material aging would cause lacking in performance and at the same time the diverse effects (but in most cases negatively) in properties and the setbacks in comfort. In particular, proceeding possible chemical decomposition depending on interior conditions of a car is of importance enabling both the lacking of material properties and decreasing the comfort of driving as well as health risks of drivers. In this study, one of the expected performance characteristics of automobile upholstery leathers-the abrasion resistance was determined by Taber Abraser.