No.7（2012）15.Development of an ambulation dummy for evaluation of clothing pressure (Part 1) -Development of a soft dummy

Hiroko Sugatani, Kenji Iwasaki

  In the field of product development and quality control evaluation of clothing pressure, such as compression wear that advertises the “clothing pressure” have been made, but these evaluations are not similar to actual use. This is due to the lack of evaluation equipment that considers the change of human body shape when this type of compression wear is being worn.
  In this study, we aim to development evaluation equipment for these composite elements. We developed a soft polyurethane dummy that considers tissue hardness for each part of the human body. The softness replicates changes to tissue hardness of human body shape when compression wear is worn.
  The equipment was verified as giving measurement results on clothing pressure comparable to those obtained from a human subject. As a result, we will use the soft dummy to evaluate clothing pressure.

Keywords
Clothing pressure, Evaluation equipment, Tissue hardness, Change of human body, Soft dummy

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