Badania materiałów włókienniczych w zakresie ich zdolności do transportu wilgoci

Celem badań była ocena materiałów włókienniczych w zakresie przepuszczalności pary wodnej, będącej jedną z podstawowych właściwości materiałów włókienniczych z punktu widzenia ich zdolności do zapewnienia komfortu fizjologicznego. Badaniom poddano 29 próbek tkanin bawełnianych i bawełnianopodobnych o zróżnicowanej strukturze. Badania parametrów charakteryzujących przepuszczalność pary wodnej materiałów włókienniczych wykonano za pomocą zaizolowanej cieplnie pocącej się płyty oraz Permetestu. Oceniono zgodność wyników uzyskanych za pomocą obu metod pomiaru.

The aim of the presented work is to investigate textile materials from the point of view of their ability to transport the moisture. The water-vapour permeability is one of the most important comfort-related properties of textiles. It determines an ability to keep a human body dry and ensures natural body thermoregulation. There are some parameters expressing the ability of textile to transfer the moisture. The water-vapour resistance can be considered as one of the most important ones. It can be determined with the sweating guarded-hotplate test called “skin model” and the Permetest. Both instruments enable also measurement of other parameters character-izing the textile materials from the point of view of the moisture transport. In the presented work the “skin model” and Permetest were applied to measure the water-vapour permeability of 29 samples of cotton woven fabrics of different structure. The diversification of fabric structure was achieved by changing the linear density of weft as well as the number of picks and ends. On the basis of the measurement results an agreement between the results from the “skin model” and Permetest was assessed. It was stated that there was strong correlation between the water-vapour resistance from the “skin model” and the Permetest (Table 1). The strong correlation also exists between the water-vapour permeability according to the “skin model” and parameters determined with the Permetest: the water-vapor resistance and the percentage water –vapor permeability (Fig. 3). The values of the water-vapor resistance according to the Permetest are higher than those of the same parame-ter determined with the “skin model” (Fig. 4).