Clothing pressure is evaluated by clothing a human body or dummy and measuring pressure using pressure sensors. In order to predict clothing pressure using the experimental tensile properties of knitted fabrics without making actual clothes, we have developed a finite element method involving a numerical model consisting of a “hyper-elastic shell with a truss model”, which expresses anisotropy and nonlinearity as a knitted fabric extension characteristic. In this report we introduce an application example using pants. The clothing pressure values predicted using this computer simulation proved to be very close to the actually measured values.
