Effect of Weft Yarn Structure on Clothing Thermal Comfort for Medical Textiles
(0) Clothing thermal comfort is of vital importance for medical textiles, as far as paraplegic and quadriplegic patients, whose lack of mobility decreases the circulation of blood, are concerned. The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of fabrics woven in different cotton weft yarns produced by new spinning technologies on clothing thermal comfort. Fabrics with 2/2 twill structure were woven in Picanol Airjet machine with the same 20s/1 carded cotton warp yarns and (ⅰ) 21s/1 twistlese cotton yarns, (ⅱ) 16s/1 Nu-TorqueTM spun cotton yarns, (ⅲ) 16s/1 Murata vortex spun cotton yarns and (ⅳ) 16s/1 ring spun cotton yarns as weft yarns respectively. All fabrics were bleached and scoured. A series of experiments related to thermal comfort properties were carried out such as thermal transmittance, air permeability, water vapour permeability, water absorbency and wickability. Generally, the results showed that a lower level of yarn twist enhanced clothing thermal comfort.
clothing thermal comfort medical textiles yarn twist
Chan C K Kwok H N Kan C W Xin J H Z Yuen C W Ng F Cheung T
Institute of Textiles and Clothing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong
国际会议
2010 International Forum on Biomedical Textile Materials(2010国际纺织生物医用论坛)
上海
英文
357-361
2010-05-28（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）