Abstract:

The task of clothing, in addition to protecting the body against atmospheric factors, is to ensure appropriate physiological comfort for the user. Therefore it is necessary to select appropriate fabrics to create clothes that are characterised by proper comfort – related properties. Physiological comfort is affected by such biophysical properties of clothing as water vapour permeability, hygroscopicity, and thermal resistance. At present in the design of clothing, particular emphasis is placed on providing a drain of moisture from the skin layer under the clothing and on thermal comfort. This raises the question: what is the influence of an adhesive insert on the biophysical properties of clothing packages, which is the aim of the paper. Research on water vapour and heat transport was carried out in static conditions using a standardised method for a ‘skin model’ that simulates the processes of emitting heat and moisture which appear on human skin. An artificial skin model was used to measure the thermal resistance and water vapour resistance in equilibrium conditions.