Osman Babaarslan

• PhD
• Head of Department at Cukurova University

The spinning industry makes a major contribution to environmental pollution due to the excessive use of natural assets and the generation of remarkable amounts of waste during manufacturing processes. Now, the spinning industries are concentrating on sustainable activities due to environmental issues. While textile recycling efforts have been widel...

Objectives: This study investigates the impact of European Union (EU) environmental policies on Bangladesh's and Turkey's textile industries. It aims to identify the challenges both nations face in implementing these regulations and explore opportunities for sustainable development by comparing their approaches. Theoretical Framework: The research...

Customers nowadays demand that their clothes be comfortable and suitable for their health in addition to the aesthetic features of the clothes they wear. Therefore, manufacturers following technological innovations to test their product capability are putting those devices on the market to measure the impact on health. The study describes the desig...

Elastane fibers, in particular, have gained an important share in the production of elastic yarn. This research aims to evaluate innovative methods for developing hybrid yarns (dual core) by integrating core elements in various configurations to show the influence of different core-inserting techniques on yarn characteristics. The research develope...

Cotton and polyester fiber blends are commonly used to improve the aesthetic features of finished items. The denim industry’s growing need for polyester fiber aids in analyzing the performance of denim fabrics woven from rigid and stretched weft yarn combined with cotton and polyester. This study evaluates the weight, dimensional changes, stiffness...

In recent years, due to the excessive increase in machine prices, changes in energy policies, the rising cost of fibre, and fluctuations in the prices of spare materials, the goal has been to achieve a high-performance working system without sacrificing quality while reducing production costs. The selection and maintenance of the ring traveler, rin...

In light of the recent technological advancements in composite yarns with multicomponent cores, also known as dual core spun yarns, their utilisation in the textile industry has become widespread. A V-grooved roller is employed to enhance the feeding of multicomponent cores. In this context, diverse composite yarn designs with varying feeding mecha...

Polypropylene multifilament yarns produced with flame-retardant (FR) additives have a significant place in the technical textile market. Determination of the technical performances of these multifilaments is very important. In addition, effects of the additive in the filament structure on the thermal and structural properties of the filament must b...

İplik üretiminin önemli bir aşaması olan tarak makinesinde üretim parametrelerinin değişimi sonrasında elde edilen şerit, fitil ve iplik kalitesinde önemli etkilere sahip olabilmektedir. Tarak makinesinde özellikle temel üretim elemanlarındaki hız değişiminin kaliteye olacak etkisi merak konusu olmuştur. Bu aşamada özellikle üretimde kullanılacak h...

The textile industries have the biggest contribution to environmental pollution due to the excessive utilization of resources (natural) and the creation of significant amounts of waste during manufacturing operations. Now the textile industries are concentrating on sustainable activities due to environmental issues. This study investigates a sustai...

The textile industry is now focusing on sustainable approaches due to environmental concerns. The study explores an innovative approach to sustainable production utilizing recycled cotton sourced from hard waste. The article examines the characteristics of rotor yarns (recycled) manufactured from seven different percentages of recycled and virgin c...

Consumer preferences for comfortable and well-fitting clothing have led to an increased demand for yarns (elastic) in denim fabric production. The study focuses on the manufacture of yarns (dual core) with various core components including T400® (Polyethylene terephthalate) / poly trimethylene terephthalate), PBT (Polybutylene terephthalate), Polye...

Consumer preferences for comfortable and well-fitting clothing have led to an increased demand for yarns (elastic) in denim fabric production. The study focuses on the manufacture of yarns (dual core) with various core components including T400® (Polyethylene terephthalate) / poly trimethylene terephthalate), PBT (Polybutylene terephthalate), Polye...

The spinning industry plays a crucial role in the global textile supply chain providing yarns for various textile products. However, the industry is also notorious for generating significant amounts of waste posing environmental challenges and sustainability concerns. This paper aims to present an overview of waste generation and waste management p...

The denim industry has experienced remarkable growth over the years driven by worldwide demand for denim products. However, this growth has come at a considerable environmental impact with the industry producing significant amounts of waste and contributing to pollution. This paper shows an overview of the current situation, explores the challenges...

İplik bobin boyama işlemi, kumaş boya işlemine göre maliyet ve proses sayısının daha az olmasından dolayı piyasada daha çok tercih edilmiştir. Bu çalışmada A harmanından elde edilen Ne 20/1, Ne 30/1, Ne 40/1 numune ring ipliklerin ve B harmanından elde edilen Ne 30/1 referans ring ipliğin, aynı yoğunluk ve çaplardaki renk farklılıklarının tespiti ü...

Environment pollution is one of the major threats to today’s world and researchers say most of the pollution comes from the washing industry. So, the study aims to find out an alternative way to the existing chemical wash process of the washing industry to save the environment. To conduct this study, one knit washing factory has been selected that...

In a garments manufacturing industry for selling as well as exporting ready-made-garments, quality improvement is a vital task. Industry will not be able to build up a good business relationship with the buyer if they fail to timely dispatch quality samples and finished product to buyers. This paper aims to investigate the changes in various aspect...

The research performed in recent years regarding synthetic filament yarns is improving the structures and properties of such yarns, and diversifying their usage areas. Most of the current studies being carried out in this field are in the form of bringing functionality to filament yarns. And one of these functional properties is the production of f...

Consumer choice and behavior are changing and focusing on comfortable clothing along with fitting. Elastic yarn or fabric is necessary to achieve this comfortableness. By making elastic yarn and using elastic material in fabric production, elastic cloths are produced with proper stretchability and recovery. For that, core-spun yarn was used, but du...

Lots of R&D and P&D studies are carried out in the laboratory conditions with the low-capacity types of industrial machines. Laboratory filament yarn machines are important in Textile Sector as they form the infrastructure/facility for research and development studies. Various and important studies are carried out in the textile sector about produc...

The rapid increase in consumption has led to the decrease and even extinction of natural resources on earth. The textile industry also has an important place in terms of consumption. The transition to more sustainable biodegradable products instead of established fossil-based materials has increased rapidly due to textile manufacturers and related...

Polyester yarn is made from post-consumer waste such as bottles, fabrics, etc., in the composition of polyester ethylene terephthalate (PET). Polyester (mainly polyethylene terephthalate, PET) is the most commonly employed textile fibre with over 50% share in total production of textile fibres. Pla is a biobased and biodegradable polymer produced f...

Textile-reinforced concrete (TRC) is an innovative building material with areas of use such as sandwich panels, roof constructions, walking bridges and outdoor furniture, which are becoming increasingly common. TRC’s are composite structures consisting of concrete produced from fine-grained aggregate and textile structures with high tensile strengt...

The demand for polyester fiber is increasing gradually day by day. Because of its good strength, low manufacturing cost, and ease of modification, polyester fiber has distinct characteristics, whereas cotton is well known for its comfort. Blending these fibers improves the performance of yarns. In this study, cotton/polyester was blended in differe...

Denim fabric is well accepted, and still, now it has appeal for its variation and technological improvement. Denim is mostly produced from cotton, which is concerned with the sustainability issue. In this article, a new generation of sustainable yarn has been developed from lyocell and cellulosic acetate fiber, blended with cotton fiber having the...

Textile reinforced concrete (TRC) is a new construction material. The braiding method was used in this study as a new approach to obtain hybrid yarn for TRC production. It is aimed to investigate the effect of the reinforcement types, textile structure types, and distance of textile structures from the concrete bottom on the flexural behavior of TR...

Textile reinforced concrete (TRC) is an innovative construction material that has been used in recent years and consist of textile components with high tensile strength and concrete produced from fine-grained aggregates. Textile components can be used in the form of raw yarn, coated with various polymers, and recently, in the form of hybrid yarn. T...

When the yarn, which is the main raw material of the textile industry, is produced as a single ply, some of its physical properties may be limited. In addition, in parallel with the changing and developing final product properties, extra physical properties are required from single ply yarns. As a result, folding and twisting processes have become...

Denim fabrics are one of the important research fields in the textile industry. Super stretch denim fabrics that have more than 30% elasticity are among the hottest trends in denim fabrics recently. The entire process chain, from raw material to finished product, must be considered when developing fabrics with high stretch values. Previously, only...

In recent decades, consumer expectations and behavior have altered, focusing on more comfortable, well-fitting clothes. Wearing a slim-fitting garment helps to move more freely. Different elastomeric polymers are being introduced as a core constituent of the yarn to make denim fabric more comfortable during movement. The use of elastic material ens...

Denim fabric has always been well accepted due to its durability and fashionable appearance. To make the denim fabric more comfortable, a new generation of dual core-spun composite yarn was produced, which has good elasticity and dimensional stability. A good quality control system is always used in the spinning process, for producing yarn from fib...

Elastic structures are opted in denim fabrics to increase elasticity and recovery properties of fabrics as well as comfort properties. In this study, performance properties of denim fabrics were evaluated comparatively as tensile strength, tearing strength, air permeability, mass change, dimensional stability, seam slippage, fabric growth, and stre...

From the beginning, denim fabric is accepted by all ages due to its fashionable look and durability. Cotton is the key raw material for the denim industry as it has supreme properties but sustainable issues. Nowadays, new generation sustainable fibers from different sources are used as the alternative to cotton. Regenerated cellulosic fiber from wo...

This work shows the washing performance of denim fabrics composed of CO(cotton)/Hemp (cottonized hemp) blend fiber with and without dual core-spun yarn. Fabric’s weight change, stiffness, color fastness to crocking, tearing strength, tensile strength and shrinkage are measured before and after washing. It is found that after 3 home wash CO/Hemp ble...

Textile-Reinforced Concrete (TRC) is a new construction material and has been used in civil engineering applications such as façade systems, sandwich panel and outside furniture during the past several decades. Generally in TRC, glass, carbon filaments, etc. are used to reinforce concrete because these high-performance filaments have superior mecha...

Worldwide yarn diversity in terms of structure and properties has increased in recent years. Especially composite yarns produced by multiple components have become very preferable in both weaving and knitting sectors. Among these yarns, core and dual core-spun yarn are more prominent in some areas due to their particular performance. In this study,...

This paper experimentally investigated the characteristics of different (filament and multicomponent) core-spun yarn type. Filament core-spun yarns comprised cotton covered drawn textured (DTY) polyester (PET) filaments with four different filament finenesses. Regarding the production of multicomponent (dual) core-spun yarns, both PET with four dif...

Recently, with the growing population and industrial technology and its impact on the environment has enabled the manufacturers aware of the responsibilities to customer and the environment. The purpose of this research is to measure the microfibers generated from the laundering of cotton, polyester, and polyester-cotton blended weaving fabrics. We...

This paper presents vertical wickability properties of lightweight denim fabrics from microfilament core-spun yarn. Four types of microfilament with different fineness at the same linear density were used in order to produce combed cotton covered core-spun ring yarns on modified ring spinning system at the same production parameters. During the yar...

In this article, porosity and air permeability of denim fabric produced from filament core-spun yarns with different filament fineness and yarn linear density were demonstrated. For this purpose, 110 dtex drawn textured polyester filaments with conventional, fine, and micro finenesses were used as core part, and combed cotton fiber was used as shea...

Filament woven fabrics are widely used for the end uses such as parachutes, sails, wind-proof clothes, sleeping bags, tents, filters and surgical textiles. For these application areas, fabrics woven from microfilament yarns serve advantage as good barrier effect owing to low level of porosity in the yarn structure. Air permeability measurement is a...

In this study, the effects of different fiber cross-sectional shapes and yarn linear density values on Partially Oriented Yarn (POY) and textured yarn characteristics have been examined. In experiment, five different cross-sectional shapes, namely round, trilobal, tetra, hexsa and octolobal and two different linear densities have been used and tena...

Denim fabrics that never lose their importance are required to have some vital properties such as good dimensional stability, high elasticity and resilience, low abrasion resistance in terms of their in use. Nowadays, movement comfort in use can be achieved with elastane containing denim fabrics, however, in terms of use; these fabrics cannot meet...

In this study, it is aimed to determine the effects of filament fineness on the water resistance property of water repellency finished filament woven fabrics. For this aim, 1/1 Plain weave polyester filament woven fabrics were produced from 110 dtex polyester yarn samples with different filament finenesses (0.33 dtex, 0.57 dtex, 0.76 dtex, 1.14 dte...

Synthetic fiber industry has been enforced to make developments due to the increasing performance demands from textile products. One of the most important developments in synthetic fiber industry, is absolutely producing extremely fine filaments which are named as microfilaments. A microfilament can be defined as a filament finer than 1 dtex or 1 D...

Denim fabrics that never lose their importance are required to have some vital properties such as good dimensional stability, higher elasticity and resilience, lower abrasion resistance in terms of their in use. Nowadays, clothing comfort in use can be achieved with elastane containing denim fabrics, however, in terms of use; these fabrics cannot m...

In this study, the effects of different fiber cross-sectional shapes and yarn linear density values on Partially Oriented Yarn (POY) and textured yarn characteristics have been examined. In experiment, five different cross-sectional shapes, namely round, trilobal, tetra, hexsa and octolobal and two different linear densities have been used and tena...

In this study sound absorption properties of multilayer nonwovens with bicomponent fibers have been derived compared with homocomponent fibers. Multilayer nonwovens obtained by polyester fibers consisted of three layers. The top and bottom layers were spunbonded nonwoven and middle layer was meltblown nonwoven sandwiched between them. Each layer wa...

Air permeability is one of the important properties of conventional as well as technical fabrics such as protective garments, filters, and fabrics for airbags and parachutes. In case of surgical textiles, air permeability is an effective measure of thermo-physiological comfort. This study is aimed to analyze PES barrier fabrics and to develop corre...

Carpet is a textile structure that composed of three components: warp (stuffer and chain warp), weft and pile yarns. These textile products are used for areas which will stand up to the use of home, hotel, work place etc. Furthermore, the capable of carpets are related to it's especially pile performance during use in various areas. During usage, c...

The behaviour of yarns under dynamic loading is important that leads to understand the growth characteristics which is exposed to repetitive loadings during usage of fabric made from these yarns. Fabric growth is undesirable property that originated from low resilience characteristics of fabric. In this study, the effects of the filament fineness a...

This study focused on predicting tensile properties of PES/CV/PAN blended Open-End Rotor yarns. The effective factors were fiber blend ratios (six stages from 0 to 100%), linear density (three count levels), mixing method (carding machine and drawframe), and number of passages in drawframe (one and two times) as production parameters. We performed...

In this study it is intended to investigate the effects of yarn spinning technology on denim fabric performance. For this aim five different 100% Cotton Ne 16/1 yarn samples were produced with different spinning technologies namely; combed ring, compact, sirospun, Open-End (OE) rotor and vortex. Then denim fabric samples were woven by using these s...

Denim fabric is one of the most popular casual wear fabrics worldwide. The performance characteristics of denim fabrics have been improved by using functional fibers and elastane to make them comfortable to wear. Elastane fibers with high elasticity are used extensively in denim fabric production. Elastane fibers are generally used as the core part...

Microfilament woven fabrics are used in many products such as sportswear, rainclothes, windproof clothes, sleeping bags and surgical gowns and for these products, thermophysiological comfort properties are of prime importance. In this study, it is intended to investigate the effects of filament linear density and weft sett on thermophysiological co...

Yarn residual torque or twist liveliness occurs when the twist is imparted to spin the fibers during yarn formation. It causes yarn snarling, which is an undesirable property and can lead the problems for further processes such as weaving and knitting. It affects the spirality of knitted fabrics and skewness of woven fabrics. Generally, yarn residu...

In the textile industry, composite yarns with multifilament cores are used to impart strength. There are various spinning systems to produce composite core-spun yarns. In this study, to determine the effects of filament fineness on yarn characteristics of composite yarns, polyester filaments with medium, fine and micro fiber linear densities were u...

In this study, denim fabrics were produced with yarns obtained from cotton fibers (CO), recycled cotton fibers obtained from yarn wastes (r-CO), and fibers produced from recycled PET bottles (r-PET). Enzyme and stone washing processes were applied systematically on these fabrics. Mass per unit area, breaking force, elongation at max force, tear str...

Permeability is one of the important properties of conventional and technical fabrics such as protective garments, filters, and fabrics for airbags and parachutes. In case of barrier protective garments it is the measure of barrier effectiveness and thermo-physiological comfort. Pore morphology of barrier multifilament fabrics is complex due to a m...

The purpose of this study was to produce 100% recycled denim without a tradeoff in quality according to zero waste concepts. Initially, the waste points from raw materials to final product in denim fabric production process were determined. Then, denim fabrics were produced from post-industrial (recycled cotton fibers obtained from denim wastes) an...

One of the most important developments seen in the synthetic fibre industry is absolutely producing microfibres. Microfibres provide many distinguishing properties for different end uses. In this study, the effects of filament linear densities on the comfort related properties of polyester knitted fabrics were investigated. For this aim, microfilam...

Polypropylene (PP) is a versatile and widely used polyolefin polymer with outstanding properties such as low density, easy processability, lower cost, low melting point, etc. Properties of the polymer, fiber cross-section and process parameters have an important influence on the filament yarn properties. In this study, PP filament yarns as C-shaped...

Woven fabrics produced from microfilament yarns are superior to conventional filament fabrics in rain clothes, tents, parachutes, sails, wind-proof clothes, sleeping bags, filters, and surgical gowns due to their distinguishing properties such as good filtration, barrier effect against weather conditions, and light weight. Breaking strength and elo...

When efforts for innovation in product design are combined with developments in filament yarn technology, these yarns open different alternatives on behalf of evaluate the textile industry. From this point of view, usage of filament and multifilament yarn structure in denim sector has been a research subject. In this study, denim fabrics were desig...

Mixture spinning aims to bring together the best properties of two or more fiber types into one single yarn. In mixture spinning, while some fiber types have impacts to increase the yarn strength, the other fiber types may have impacts to improve the yarn unevenness values. In this study, it is aimed to obtain a regression model that predicts the u...

Producers benefit from various applications to increase the usage of denim for the winter seasons. However, the current applications have negative effects on clothing comfort. In this study, availability of chenille yarn, which is a type of fancy yarn for denim industry, has been examined by improving aforementioned clothing comfort. We investigate...

There are various structural parameters (number of filament, cross-sectional shape, linear density, etc.) determined during the production of synthetic fibre and these parameters influence product features. Among these parameters, cross-sectional shape of fibres has a significant importance. Desired features can be added to the products by varying...

This study is focused on the air permeability properties of tightly woven polyester microfilament fabrics. By increasing the pressure drop values on the test device it is aimed to observe the air permeability by increasing air speed. For this aim, considering an earlier work, plain woven fabric samples with 36 wefts/cm and 5 different filament fine...

Strength and elongation have a great effect on slub yarn performance in production and usage. The main aim of this study is to determine the statistically significant descriptive parameters that have an effect on the breaking force and elongation of slub yarn using the full factorial design method. In addition, the effects of the significant parame...

In addition to having the characteristics required according to their areas of use, fabrics must also show sufficient resistance to potential frictions that they are to be exposed to. Friction of a textile material with another textile material, or its friction with a non-textile surface, can cause losses in performance characteristics like fabric...

Interlinings are produced recently not only natural and synthetics fibers but also fiber sheet form in nonwoven production methods. During usage, the fabric wears out and because of this problem fabric surface structure deteriorates. As a result of, investigation of fabrics surface and frictional properties has been important before usage of garmen...

Nowadays, added value of conventional ring yarns has been decreased therefore importance of core-yarns has been increasing whether producers or consumers. Because of reflecting the positive side of the both component to the new yarn structure by composing two different component, in the future it is reported that these yarns can be used especially...

In this study, a theoretical model which will be used for calculating average count of the slub yarn widely used recently in the pre-production stage. in order to investigate the usability of the model, the yarn samples were produced by using the ring spinning frame on which was mounted an original electronically controlled slub attachment develope...

Friction force that can be defined as the force resisting to the movement between two surfaces contacting with each other which plays an important role in textile industry. During usage, the fabrics continue to friction against the textile or other surfaces; because of this problem fabric surface structure deteriorates. Therefore, most scientists h...

Friction force that can be defined as the forces resisting relative to the movement between two surfaces contacting with each other plays an important role in textile industry. During usage, the fabrics continue to friction to the textile or the other surfaces and because of this problem fabric surface structure deteriorates. Therefore, most of the...