Objective Evaluation of Garment Pressure

Abstract

Very sophisticated single-point and multi-point flexible pressure sensors were used to objectively evaluate the pressure applied by a garment on the wearers body. Both commercially available civilian garments and prototypes for military garments developed by the Garment Team at the LEHP were used in this study. The objectives were (1) to establish a correlation between subjective evaluation of comfort and pressure values at various location in a garment, and (2) to extend this comparison of wearers subjective perceptions and objective pressure values to prototypes of military garments developed by researchers at LEHP. The methods developed in this study can help researchers determine points of high pressure in a garment and areas requiring modification. The objective measurement methods used in this study can also help in comparing pressure comfort of many garments without going through time-consuming subjective evaluation. This study also confirmed other researchers conclusions that objective measurements of garment pressure correlate with subjective assessments.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 26, 2022
Accession Number
AD1157449

Entities

People

  • Muthu Govindaraj
  • Shefali Agarwal

Organizations

  • Philadelphia University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Data Acquisition
  • Department Of Defense
  • Engineering
  • Fabrics
  • High Pressure
  • Human Body
  • Materials
  • Modulus Of Elasticity
  • Physical Properties
  • Pressure Measurement
  • Shear Modulus
  • Shear Properties
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Surface Properties
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Textiles

Fields of Study

  • Agricultural and Food sciences

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Materials Science.
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.