TY - JOUR
T1 - Heat Transferring Mechanism through Interlacing Structure Using Finite Element Analysis 
AU - Tu , Le-Xi
AU - Chen , Li-Jun
AU - Luo , Sheng-Li
AU - Chen , Shao-Wei
AU - Jiang , Xiao-Juan
AU - Shen , Hua
JO - Journal of Fiber Bioengineering and Informatics
VL - 3
SP - 141
EP - 150
PY - 2018
DA - 2018/11
SN - 11
DO - http://doi.org/10.3993/jfbim00306
UR - https://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/jfbi/12881.html
KW - 3D heterogeneous model
KW - Heat transfer
KW - Textile
KW - Heat flow
AB - <p>Heat transmission in the fabric is strongly related to the thermal comfort, which plays an important
role when designing fabrics. In this work, a heterogeneous model constructed according to the internal
structure of five woven fabrics was developed to study the heat transmission through fabrics. In this
model, heat can transfer along the longitudinal and transverse direction of warp and weft yarn at different
rate base on the inputted boundary conditions and constants, such as mass density, specific heat and
thermal conductivity. In addition, heat transmission occurring in the contacting interface between the
warp and weft yarn was also considered. The validity of this model was then confirmed by the high
consistency between the thermal resistance obtained from experiment and simulation. The simulation
results suggested that heat mainly transfers inside the same yarn, with only a very small portion of heat
exchange between the warp and weft yarn via their contacting region. Besides, the calculated fabric
thermal resistance is obviously affected by the size of contacting area between fabric and heat source.</p>