Review of Heat Transfer in Textiles, Part 1: Experimental Studies

Understanding the thermal properties of textiles, such as thermal comfort, thermal protection, and thermal insulation, is one of the topics of interest in textile industry and clothing. The thermal resistance of textiles is a detrimental parameter in heat transferand it can be obtained by experimental, analytical, or numerical methods. The thermal behavior analysis of textiles that have different geometrical and structural properties is possible by experimental methods. Different parameters affect the thermal properties of fabrics including the type of material, morphological properties, fineness, cross-section, porosity, yarn structure, fabric structural, fabric finishing. The aim of this paper is to review the published experimental results on the thermal behavior of textiles. In this paper (part I), we list the measuring methods of thermal properties and discuss the geometrical and structural parameters affecting the thermal conductivity in textiles.