Abstract:

The structure feature of sportswear affects the heat and moisture transfer property, and thus influences thermal comfort of the wearer. Based on the male local sweating pattern and properties of current moisture absorbent and quick dry fabric, several functional sportswear prototypes were developed by fabrics splicing. The advanced 34-zone sweating manikin ‘Newton’ was used to measure thermal insulation, evaporative resistance and permeability index of the developed body mapping sportswear (BMS), and the predicted heat stress (PHS) model was applied to predict the physiological parameters such as skin temperature, core temperature, total sweating production and sweating rate in different environmental conditions. Those indices were used to evaluate the thermoregulatory of BMS. The findings were helpful to optimize the design, and thus provide effective suggestions for the engineering of BMS.

Key words: sweating pattern, body mapping sportswear, sweating rate, heat and moisture transfersweating thermal manikin