Effect of Different Fabric Skin Combinations on Predicted Sweating Skin Temperature of a Thermal Manikin
In this study,a knit cotton fabric skin and a Goretex skin were used to simulate two sweating methods. The Gore-tex skin was put on top of the pre-wetted knit cotton skin on a dry heated thermal manikin Tore to simulate senseless sweating,similar to thermal manikins Coppelius and Walter. Another simulation involved the pre-wetted fabric skin covered on top of the Gore-tex skin in order to simulate sensible sweating. This type of sweating simulation can be widely found on many thermal manikins worldwide,e.g. Newton. Two empirical equations to predict the wet skin surface temperature were developed based on the mean manikin surface temperature,mean fabric skin surface temperature and the total heat loss. The prediction equations for the senseless sweating and sensible sweating on the thermal manikin Tore were Tsk=34.05-0.0193 HL and Tsk=34.63-0.0178 HL,respectively. It was found that the Gore-tex skin limits moisture evaporation and the predicted fabric skin temperature was greater than that in the G+C skin combination. Further study should validate those two empirical equations,however.
Thermal manikin Sweating skin Skin temperature Empirical equation
Faming Wang Kalev Kuklane Chuansi Gao Ingvar Holmer
Thermal Environment Laboratory,Division of Ergonomics and Aerosol Technology,Department of Design Sciences,Faculty of Engineering,Lund University,Lund 22100,Sweden
国际会议
杭州
英文
184-186
2010-10-20（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）