A New Objective Method for Comfort Assessment of Sportswear Knitted Fabrics

Year 2021, Volume: 31 Issue: 4, 318 - 328, 30.12.2021

Esin Babalık , Sinem Güneşoğlu , Burçin Ütebay , Ayşegül Çetmeli Bakadur , Cem Güneşoğlu

https://doi.org/10.32710/tekstilvekonfeksiyon.877586

Cited By: 2

Abstract

The aim of this study is to develope a new approach for objective comfort assesment of knitted fabrics used in sportswear industry. The method is based on measurement of various mechanical and heat / mass transfer properties and converting the test results into the axis values to draw multi-axial graphics. The graphic area is used to calculate unitless Total Comfort Value (TCV); the higher the TCV the higher the clothing comfort performance the fabric has.

Keywords

Knitted fabric, Clothing comfort, multi-axial graphic

Supporting Institution

TUBITAK

Project Number

5150091

Thanks

This work was supported by the under Grant number 5150091 and by Gaziantep University under Grant number MF.ALT.18.03. The authors also wish to thank Mr. Gassan Asker and Akarca Mensucat / K.Maraş for pre-treatment process of the samples.

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