Original scientific paper
An Investigation on the Air Permeability of Automobile Seat Cover Fabrics
Gulsah Pamuk
; Ege University, Tire Kutsan Vocation School, Tire-Izmir, Turkey
Fatma Ceken
; Dokuz Eylul University, Textile Engineering Department, Bornova-Izmir, Turkey
Abstract
The interaction between passenger-drivers and vehicles has been increasing continuously from the date of transportation vehicles invention to today. Especially in automobiles the seats play an important role for the comfort of the driver and the passengers. The components of a seat affect the thermal comfort while the design of the seat has a big impact on the anthropometric comfort. A considerable effort has been devoted to the seating comfort from the point of anthropometrics and ergonomics view. However, according to our literature research there is no experimental study which measures the relative thermal comfort performances of automobile seat cover fabrics. In this study, air permeability of several automobile seat cover fabrics produced using different techniques are measured and then compared. The automobile seat cover fabrics produced by 7 different production techniques were provided by the several important automobile seat fabric manufacturers in Turkey, and were tested in the form in which the fabrics will be used in vehicles.
Keywords
automobile seat cover fabrics; air permeability; one way analysis of variance
Hrčak ID:
35518
URI
Publication date:
10.4.2008.
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