Analysis of Clothing Pressure on the Human Body in Motion

Abstract

The comfort provided by clothes is a key element that directly affects the human psychology as well as physiology in all environmental conditions. The authors have presented the development of knitted fabric models for finite element analysis to simulate the large deformation behavior of garments and clothing pressure distribution on the human body in a stationary position. This paper describes an extension of the investigation to a study of the human body in motion. The study accomplished a fully automatic simulation of the clothing pressure change in T-shirts during jogging. The analysis technique is expected to be utilized in the development of a stabilized electrocardiographic measurement for a person during exercise.