Thermal comfort of dual-chamber ski gloves

17th World Textile Conference AUTEX 2017 - Shaping the Future of Textiles

Dotti, F.^1 ; Colonna, M.^2 ; Ferri, A.^1

Politecnico di Torino, Department of Applied Science and Technology, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24, Torino

10129, Italy^1

Università di Bologna, Department of Civil, Chemical, Environmental and Materials Engineering, University of Bologna, Via Terracini 28, Bologna

40131, Italy^2

关键词: Climatic chamber;    Cold conditions;    Thermal sensations;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1757-899X/254/18/182002/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1757-899X/254/18/182002

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

In this work, the special design of a pair of ski gloves has been assessed in terms of thermal comfort. The glove 2in1 Gore-Tex has a dual-chamber construction, with two possible wearing configurations: one called "grip" to maximize finger flexibility and one called "warm" to maximize thermal insulation in extremely cold conditions. The dual-chamber gloves has been compared with two regular ski gloves produced by the same company. An intermittent test on a treadmill was carried out in a climatic chamber: it was made of four intense activity phases, during which the volunteer ran at 9 km/h on a 5% slope for 4 minutes, spaced out by 5-min resting phases. Finger temperature measurements were compared with the thermal sensations expressed by two volunteers during the test.