Review article
COMPUTER–AIDED CLOTHING ERGONOMIC DESIGN FOR THERMAL COMFORT
Yi Li
; Institute of Textiles and Clothing, Hong Kong
Abstract
Ergonomics is defined as the scientific discipline concerned with the understanding of interactions among humans and other elements of a system, and the profession that applies theory, principles, data and methods to design in order to optimize human well-being and overall system performance. Clothing is an essential means for human well-being, existence and survival, which involves study of humans and their environments, including anthropometry, biomechanics, textile engineering, clothing engineering, kinesiology, physiology, thermophysiology and psychology. Clothing provides a portable and personalized thermal environment that is critically important for human survival in extreme conditions and determines the health and sickness of human populations in daily life. Ergonomic design for thermal comfort involves the integration of multidisciplinary knowledge and has been a complex and long process of trial-and-error in traditional means. Utilizing proper mathematic models, computational algorithms, databases and increasing computer power and popularity, we can design and engineer apparel products for thermal comfort in an effective, economical and scientific way by using advanced CAD system. This paper presents a virtual thermal ergonomic CAD system for ergonomic design of clothing, which creates a virtual space for designers and engineers to design and develop apparel products and view their thermal functional performance without making the real garment samples. The thermal bioengineering framework and clothing ergonomic design principles are presented with case demonstrations.
Keywords
Key-words: thermal environment; thermophysiology; clothing; CAD; thermal function; ergonomic design
Hrčak ID:
67036
URI
Publication date:
19.4.2011.
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