Sertaç GÜNEY, Hilal BALCI, İbrahim ÜÇGÜL

The Effect of Fabric Structural Geometry on Thermal Transfer Performance in Sportswear

Especially for textiles, which contain open structure pores, airflow carrying heat energy transfers from one side to another side byconduction and convection. Convective heat transfer plays a very important role in thermal transfer performance of textiles due to itsporous structure. Compression sportswear are generally produced from knitted porous stretch fabrics, which get extended on wearingand remain in the extended state. Since they are worn next to skin and are direct contact with the body surface, their thermal comfortproperties are effective on overall clothing comfort. Perhaps the greater contact of the garment to the skin together with the constantairflow can transfer the heat better from the body to the environment. Most of the well-known auxetic materials possess porousmicrostructures and the sizes of the pores of auxetic materials can vary during the compressive and tensile deformation. In this study,an investigation has been made to evaluate the auxetic effect on the thermal transfer performance of clothing. Two type fabrics havingthe very similar fabric properties but different knitting structures were provided from the market and producer. While one has anauxetic structure, the other has a standard warp knitting structure commonly used in market. As permeability and porosity are stronglyrelated to each other, we compared air permeability of fabrics in extended state considering the fabric extension results taken fromvirtual avatar having the same body measurements as subjects in 3D simulation. Fabric surface temperature changes on differentclothed body parts investigated by an infrared thermal camera and analysed in thermal camera software (Flir Tools) for thermaltransfer performance according to the wearing protocol.

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