2019 Raccuglia The use of infrared thermal imaging to measure spatial and temporal sweat retention in clothing.pdf (2.23 MB)
The use of infrared thermal imaging to measure spatial and temporal sweat retention in clothing
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posted on 2019-03-07, 09:58 authored by Margherita Raccuglia, Christian Heyde, Alex LloydAlex Lloyd, Simon HodderSimon Hodder, George HavenithGeorge HavenithIn our previous laboratory study a ‘destructive’ gravimetric method was developed to quantify local garment sweat absorption. While this currently is the only methodology that permits direct and analytical measurements of garment regional sweat absorption, the latter approach is time-consuming and expensive, therefore of limited applicability. As such, in this study, we wanted to assess whether infrared thermography could be used as an indirect method to estimate garment regional sweat absorption, right after exercise, in a ‘non-destructive’ fashion. Spatial and temporal sweat absorption data, obtained in our previous study, were correlated with spatial and temporal temperature data obtained in the same experiment with an infrared thermal camera. The data suggest that infrared thermography is a good tool to qualitatively predict regional sweat absorption in garments at separate individual time points; however temporal changes are not predicted well, due to a moisture content threshold above which variations in sweat content cannot be discriminated by further temperature changes.
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International Journal of BiometeorologyCitation
RACCUGLIA, M. ... et al., 2019. The use of infrared thermal imaging to measure spatial and temporal sweat retention in clothing. International Journal of Biometeorology, 63 (7), pp.885–894.Publisher
Springer VerlagVersion
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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Acceptance date
2019-02-22Publication date
2019-03-27Notes
This paper was published by Springer as Open Access with a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) licence.ISSN
0020-7128Publisher version
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- en