Layering Effects on Clothing Microclimate, Clothing Insulation and Physiological Responses

Determination of Clothing Microclimate Volume

Data Mining for Prediction of Clothing Insulation

Owing to difficulties of gathering large volumes of textile domain data in a context of less mining research, predicting the characteristics of garments becomes an important open problem which receives more and more attention from the textiles research community. In this research work, the field of Data mining attempts to predict clothing insulation factors with the goal of understanding the co...

Effect of clothing ventilation on thermal insulation and vapor resistance

In this study, ventilation of clothing microenvironment, thermal insulation and vapor resistance of two jackets made of different materials were measured locally at front, back, side and arm by using an articulated thermal manikin in a controlled climate chamber (29±1°C, 40±10%RH). The various conditions of microenvironment ventilation were created by making the manikin stand and walk, combined...

Calculation of clothing insulation by serial and parallel methods: effects on clothing choice by IREQ and thermal responses in the cold.

Cold protective clothing was studied in 2 European Union projects. The objectives were (a) to examine different insulation calculation methods as measured on a manikin (serial or parallel), for the prediction of cold stress (IREQ); (b) to consider the effects of cold protective clothing on metabolic rate; (c) to evaluate the movement and wind correction of clothing insulation values. Tests were...

Effects of clothing ventilation openings on thermoregulatory responses during exercise

The effect of clothing openings on thermoregulatory responses of wearers during a treadmill exercise in controlled laboratory conditions has been studied. Nine short sleeved T-shirts with varying design of clothing openings at neck and hem have been designed, and the test is performed on six males, considering 10min of standing rest, 30min of running at 55% of VO2max followed by 10min of rest. ...