Assessment of thermophysiological wear comfort of clothing systems

Abstract

The comfort of clothing systems plays an important role within the domains of sport, daily routine and, in particular, work clothing, business clothing, as well as of military clothing. Only optimal comfort will enable the wearer to work efficiently over long periods of time and help to protect the body from dangerous local cooling or from imminent overheating. Since the problem of ensuring optimal clothing comfort is a complex one, the contribution presents the brief survey of past related work, and some models developed for the evaluation of human thermal regulation, together with the new approach to predicting clothing thermophysiological comfort, based on current advances in science of heat budget modelling, human biometeorology and weather conditions.