2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

The Proposal of New Measurement Technique for the Climate within Clothing and Its Possibility

Research Project

Project/Area Number	24650474
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Research Field	General human life sciences
Research Institution	Kanagawa Institute of Technology
Principal Investigator	NARUMI Akira 神奈川工科大学, 工学部, 教授 (50100764)
Project Period (FY)	2012-04-01 – 2014-03-31
Keywords	衣服の快適性 / 衣服内気候 / 温度・濃度分布非定常計測法 / ホログラフィ干渉法 / 赤外線吸収法
Research Abstract	In the narrow space between skin of human body and clothing called climate within clothing. there occurs the complicated heat and mass transfer through cloth due to heat generation and sweat evaporation released from human body. To clarify the relationship between wear comfort and climate within clothing, it is very significant to obtain the transient distributions of temperature and vapor concentration simultaneously in this space. However, there is no useful measurement for such complicated phenomena. This research proposed the new measurement technique of combining infrared ray absorption system with real time holographic interferometry and applied it to this space. As a result, this research could prove the possibility of new measurement technique proposed in this research with finding some subjects to develop the available technique.