Thermo-physiological

Layering is a functional concept of sports apparel construction and assembly, and it influences body movement, maintenance of human thermo neutrality, protective performance of garments and their thermo-physiological effects. 

Elimination of seams from the shoe upper and ability to seamlessly incorporate various knitted structures into the upper piece offer added flexibility, reduced weight, foot conformity and mapping of the upper part of the foot, according to the required support and flexibility, as well as to the thermo-physiological requirements of the foot such as ventilation, thermal transfer and breathability. It is also possible, similarly to the garment circular machines described above, to vary the stitch length of the knitted... 

In many applications, breathable fabrics are expected to satisfy many functional characteristics other than breathability, such as fabric tear, tensile, and peel strength flex and abrasion resistance launderability tape sealability thermo-physiological comfort, etc., and perform efficiently over the lifetime of the product. "- - Surface modification or stitching may also adversely affect the functionality of fabrics. 

Thermo-physiological and climate-controlling properties of the spacer-fabrics will also be discussed in this paper. These tests directly relate to the functional comfort characteristics of the spacer-fabric structures which include thermal resistance, thermal absorpitivity, water vapour permeability, and evaporative heat loss. In all of the tests undertaken, comparisons are made to results obtained for traditional compression bandages and padding bandage materials. 

Materials to improve thermo-physiological comfort of protective clothing... 

One of crucial requirements on protective clothing is that, while not compromise the ultimate protection of wearer, they need to address the thermal burden caused by the metabolic heat and moisture produced by human body enclosed in the protective clothing ensembles. Various high performance materials and functional textile structures are incorporated into protective clothing to reduce these thermo-physiological burdens, and a few examples of such functional materials and textile structures are discussed in this section. 

The objective of this work is to test and validate a program named Huthereg that simulates the human thermo-physiological behavior. 

Within the range of situations analyzed in the present work no limitations in the software were found. Therefore, the usefulness, the applicability and the reliability of the Huthereg program in the simulation of the thermo-physiological response of the human body is highlighted. It is expected that this program will continue to be used in the future in many different research studies and in... 

Abreu, R.M., Raimundo, A.M. Quintela, D A. 2014. Analysis of the thermo-physiological response to cooling techniques in firefighters. VII International... 

Pereira, C.D. 2014. Test and validation of a simulation program of the thermo-physiological behavior of the human body. Master Thesis, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Coimbra (in Portuguese). 

The thermo-physiological corrrfort characteristics of the clothing assembly depends upon the heat and moistirre/moisture vapor trarrsfer properties of the textile materials and environmental factors like temperatnre, relative humidity, wind speed etc. Prediction of... 

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