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7. Glossary
Perméabilité à l'air; air permeability
Ability of a textile material to allow air to pass through it.
Permeabilimètre à air; air permeability tester
Device for measuring air permeability.
Fabric; fabric
Article made from woven, knitted or non-woven textile materials.
Porosity
Free space between the threads of a fabric.
CFD (computational fluid dynamics)
Numerical simulation in fluid mechanics to validate and optimize a product or process involving fluid movement.
Confort; comfort
Well-being, ease, psychological, intellectual and moral tranquility achieved by rejecting all preoccupations.
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AFNOR
- Textiles – Dictionary of standardized terms - NF G00-001 - 1985
- Textiles – Determining the air permeability of fabrics - ISO 9237 - 1995
- Ergonomics of thermal environments –Analytical determination and interpretation of thermal comfort by calculating PMV and PPD indices and local thermal comfort criteria - ISO 7730 - 2005
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Permeabilimeters/Densimeters
Verson Vlies Courcier (VVC, Linselles, France) http://vvc.eu/
TexTest (Schwerzenbach, Switzerland) distributed by France Scientifique http://www.textest.ch/
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