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Abstract
Human comfort is influenced by the external atmospheric conditions, the human body and what we wear and clothes worn close to skin should absorb the perspiration from the skin surface and transfer moisture to atmosphere by wicking anddiffusion.In this study, knitted fabric is chosen because of its high porosity which leads to comfort in sportswear and outer wear garments, using four knitted structures as single Jersey, rib, interlock, and pique which were produced by different fiber types such as cotton, polyester, viscose, modal, and elasten.Moisture regain and liquid water absorbency of the material respectively determines how much water vapor or liquid water can be absorbed by the clothing material from the skin. Besides the absorption characteristic there are other moisture related properties such as drying ability, water vapor transmission and wicking property of knitted fabric.The aim of this work was to investigate the effect of knitted fabric characteristics on moisture management properties to find the relationship between different knitted characteristics and physiological comfort parameters. This study focused on the water vapor transfer through the knit fabrics. Another part study will investigate the water transfer through the knit fabrics.It was found that by blending polyester with cotton, the fabric was able to absorb less moisture than that only made from 100% cotton. But when viscose was blended with cotton the blended fabric was able to absorb more moisture thanI00% cotton fabrics. Cotton, viscose and modal fibers absorb higher number ofwater molecules and shows higher moisture regain Fabrics which have higher porosity have higher water wicking height while fabrics which have higher weight and stitch density absorb more moisture and water vapor showed less water wicking height. Polyester fabric has a very low moisture regain can be effective in water wicking.ANOVA was applied to analyze the effect of fabric construction on fabric performance. Correlation analysis was applied to obtain the relations between studied parameters and the output moisture management properties.