Study of friction in the "textile-human" system for the ergonomic design of sustainable functional clothing

Abstract

The article is devoted to the research on the process of knitted fabrics frictional interaction with the surface of a human body. We established the formulas for the calculation of friction coefficients for cylindrical and arbitrary surfaces of revolution, obtained as a result of the human body surface approximation. We investigated the frictional interaction of textile samples with prototypes of human body surface segments made of solid polymer base and medical purposes silicone. The study was carried out for different rotation frequencies of the knitted fabric in relative to the conventional surface of the human body (prototype) and different wrap angles of the bearing surface by the knitted fabric. The obtained data have a wide application range in the scope of tight-fitting sportswear and medical clothing production.