Measurements of the Additional Insulation of Aircraft Seats with Clothing Ensembles of Different Seasons

摘要

Clothing insulation measurement is the basis of human thermal comfort assessment.As a special kind of clothing,the insulation of seat would affect the thermal comfort of human body.According to the questionnaire investigation regarding passengers' comfort in aircraft cabins,passengers complained of thermal discomfort at the head and the back.Therefore,the additional insulation of aircraft seat would affect the thermal comfort of human body.In this paper,we used a thermal manikin named Newton that has 20 body parts and a real three-seat chair of aircraft cabin for the test.