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| A Study on Material of Manikin Skin for Measuring Clothing Evaporative Resistance |
| Liwen Wang, Mingyan Lu, Xiaoqun Dai |
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Abstract 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.
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Liwen Wang,Mingyan Lu,Xiaoqun Dai. A Study on Material of Manikin Skin for Measuring Clothing Evaporative Resistance[J]. Journal of Fiber Bioengineering and Informatics, 2015, 8(2): 221-228.
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2015, Vol. 8 
