PROTOTYPE MANUFACTURING OF A NEW DYNAMIC-BASED PRESSURE MEASUREMENT TEST DEVICE FOR MEDICAL AND TEXTILE APPLICATIONS

Customers nowadays demand that their clothes be comfortable and suitable for their health in addition to the aesthetic features of the clothes they wear. Therefore, manufacturers following technological innovations to test their product capability are putting those devices on the market to measure the impact on health. The study describes the design, development, and prototype manufacturing stages of a new pressure measurement test device for measuring the pressure resulting from the interaction of human legs and stretch garments. The device can bend from the knee and move dynamically which has innovative aspects compared to the ones commercially available. After mass production of the device, it might be possible to measure the pressure levels of the garments to the human body, therefore, the effects of the fabrics on blood pressure in addition to body physiology can be evaluated with concrete values.