Research Status and Development Trend of Sweating Thermal Manikin

This paper reviews the development process of sweating thermal manikin systematically,introduces its measuring system and test method in detail,analyzes characteristics of "Walter " which represents the peak of sweating thermal manikin,summarizes its application fields and analyzes its development trend,i. e. achieve sweating thermal manikin that can simulate non-uniform sweating of human body,standardization of measuring principle and method of sweating thermal manikin,sweating thermal manikin that can measure local thermal-wet comfort of clothes,inner climate between sweating thermal manikin and clothing and skin of sweating thermal manikin.