TY - JOUR
T1 - A Study on Material of Manikin Skin for Measuring Clothing Evaporative Resistance
AU - Liwen Wang, Mingyan Lu & Xiaoqun Dai
JO - Journal of Fiber Bioengineering and Informatics
VL - 2
SP - 221
EP - 228
PY - 2015
DA - 2015/08
SN - 8
DO - http://doi.org/10.3993/jfbim00088
UR - https://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/jfbi/4701.html
KW - Evaporative Resistance
KW - Fabric Skin
KW - Sweating Thermal Manikin
KW - Heat Loss
KW - Skin Temperature
AB - Evaporative resistance is an important parameter of clothing in its thermal comfort. The sweating
thermal manikin developed for evaporative resistance test needs a textile skin covering its surface to
simulate sweating. To investigate the effect of skin material on the measurement, three knitted fabrics
(cotton, blend of cotton and polyester, polyester) were made into skins for the sweating thermal manikin
Newton. The evaporative resistances of boundary air layer and four clothing ensembles were measured
under an isothermal condition. It was found that the evaporative resistances measured with cotton skin
were smaller than those measured with the other two skins. The large evaporative area and strong water
absorbing ability of thick, dense and hydrophilic cotton skin result in more evaporative heat loss and
consequently lower evaporative resistance values.