Measurement of local evaporative resistance of a typical clothing ensemble using a sweating thermal manikin

Abstract

Abstract To accurately simulate human physiology and thermal comfort, certain human physiological and comfort models categorize the human body into multiple parts. Most of these body parts are normally clothed, which must be quantified in the simulation. However, existing databases of clothing evaporative resistance only characterize the evaporative resistance of the whole body and not those of individual body parts. This implies that each body part has the same level of clothing evaporative resistance. In this research, we measure the local clothing insulation and evaporative resistance. Here, we present the local thermal characteristic values as well as the values for the whole body.

Keywords

• clothing evaporative resistance
• clothing insulation
• clothing vapor permeation efficiency
• sweating thermal manikin