Research on Dynamic Heat and Moisture Comfort Property of Sports Underwear in Different Style

Abstract

With the rapid development of economic in China, more and more people are involved in Bodybuilding activities. As it is known to all, bodybuilding is the process which can bring massive heat and moisture, so it is vital for bodybuilders to have the excellent thermal-wet comfort of sports underwear. It is studied on dynamic thermal-wet comfort of ten styles sports underwear from the aspect of structure factors and it realized that subjective evaluation and data Acquisition are done at the same time. According to the result of subjective evaluation, it finishes the objective analyses which rely on varied and practical values of temperature and humidity, it gets the best style of thermal-wet comfort by the method of K-means clustering.

Effects of ventilation design on thermal comfort performance and breast displacement for sports bras

“…Structure factors of sports bras had effect on dynamic heat and moisture comfort. 12 (HQ Inc., USA) prior to the experiment and were prohibited from taking fluids and food in order to avoid the interference of core temperature data collection and to minimize the impact of hydration status. The participants' bra sizes were assessed by a trained bra fitter, following the recommendations of McGhee and Steele (2006).…”

“…6 If this heat cannot be dissipated, it will affect thermal comfort and may cause heat strain, fatigue, stroke, and even death for the wearer. 6 Many studies have discussed the thermal comfort of sports bras, [7][8][9][10][11][12] while most of the attention has been paid to varieties of fabrics, [7][8][9][10] without discussing the ventilation. Ventilation is an effective strategy for improving heat loss and has been used in many other garments.…”

“…In addition, the improvement of thermal comfort performance should not be at the cost of the reduction of support performance, which was regarded as one of the most important functions of sports bras. However, most studies have focused only on support [25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37] or thermal comfort [7][8][9][10][11][12] (as shown in Table 1), little research has paid attention to both the breast support and thermal comfort performance of sports bras.…”