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Science of Clothing Comfort

ABOUT THE COURSE:

Clothing comfort is one of the most important attributes of textile materials. A basic understanding of comfort aspects of textile materials would be extremely useful for fibre, yarn and fabric manufacturer, researcher, garment designer, processing industries, garment houses, users of the fabrics for speciality applications and all others related with textile and garment industries. The multidisciplinary nature of the subject, encompassing various concepts of physics, neurosciences, psychological science, material sciences, ergonomics, instrumentation and textile engineering would stimulate the minds for innovation, product design and development and material characterization with scientific approaches.

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Final Exam (in-person, invigilated, currently conducted in India) is mandatory for Certification and has INR Rs. 1100 as exam fee.



INTENDED AUDIENCE:
UG and PG Students of Textile, Clothing and fashion technology, Material science etc.

CORE/ELECTIVE: Elective

UG/PG: Both PG and UG

PREREQUISITES: Basic courses on Textiles

INDUSTRY SUPPORT: NIL

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ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR:



Prof. Apurba Das is Professor in the Department of Textile Technology, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He has completed his Ph. D. from the same department in the year 1994. He has joined Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi in 2002 as a faculty after serving in the textile industries and in research organization for about 11 years. He has guided many Ph.D., M. Tech., B. Tech. students and presently guiding several Ph.D., M. Tech. and B. Tech. students. He has published more than 260 research papers in journals and conferences, authored and edited 05 books and written chapters in 18 books. He has successfully completed many research and consultancy projects from industries and government funding agencies. He has filed several patent applications. He has developed several instruments for characterization of textile materials. His main areas of teaching and research interest are clothing comfort, sports textiles, nonwovens and technical textiles, filter fabrics, geotextiles, medical bandage, textile composites, and instrumentation. He has international research collaborations with universities from different countries like, Germany, Poland, Hungary, Slovenia, Italy, Portugal, China, South Korea, Australia, UK, Hong Kong, Croatia etc.

COURSE LAYOUT:

Week 1  :  Introduction to Clothing Comfort
Week 2  :   Psychology and Comfort
Week 3  : Neurophysiological Processes in Clothing Comfort
Week 4-5  :  Tactile Aspects of Clothing Comfort
Week 6-7  :  Thermal Transmission
Week 8-10  :  Moisture Transmission
Week 11  :  Dynamic Heat and Mass Transmission
Week 12  :  Garment Fit and Comfort

SUGGESTED READING MATERIALS:

1. Science in Clothing Comfort, Apurba Das and R. Alagirusamy, Woodhead Publishing India Ltd., 2010.
2. K. Slater, The Thermal Behaviour of Textiles, Textile Progress, Vol. 8, No. 3, 1976.
3. K. Slater, Comfort Properties of Textiles, Textile Progress, Vol. 9, No. 4, 1977
4. Y. Li, The Science of Clothing Comfort, Textile Progress, Vol. 31, No. 1 & 2, 2001
5. Patnaik et. al., Wetting and Wicking in Fibrous Materials, Textile Progress, Vol. 38, No. 1, 2008
6. M. Yoneda and S. Kawabata, Analysis of Transient Heat Conduction and its Application-Part I, J. Text. Mach. Soc. of Japan, Vol. 29, No. 4, 1983, 73.
7. Thermal and moisture transport in fibrous materials, edited by N. Pan and P. Gibson, The Textile Institute, Published by woodhead Publishing Limited, Cambridge, England, 2006
8. Quality control: Fabric comfort – V. K. Kothari.  
CERTIFICATION EXAM :
  • The exam is optional for a fee.
  • Date and Time of Exam: October 28, 2018 (Sunday): 
  • Time of Exams: Morning session 9am to 12 noon; Afternoon session: 2pm to 5pm.
  • Exam for this Course will be available in both morning & afternoon sessions.
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  • The online registration form has to be filled and the certification exam fee needs to be paid. More details will be made available when the exam registration form is published.

CERTIFICATE:

  • Final score will be calculated as : 25% assignment score + 75% final exam score
  • 25% assignment score is calculated as 25% of average of  Best 8 out of 12 assignments
  • E-Certificate will be given to those who register and write the exam and score greater than or equal to 40% final score. Certificate will have your name, photograph and the score in the final exam with the breakup.It will have the logos of NPTEL and IIT Madras. It will be e-verifiable at http://nptel.ac.in/noc/