TPACC-Textile Protection and Comfort Center
The only academic center in the U.S. that incorporates in one location the capabilities to research, test, and evaluate the comfort and protective performance of textile materials, garments, and ensemble systems
Delivering the science to balance protection and performance
Unparalleled laboratory capabilities and expertise in evaluating textile comfort and protective performance
The Textile Protection and Comfort Center (TPACC) is a world leader in research that uses instrumented testing systems to scientifically evaluate the comfort and protective performance of materials and clothing systems. TPACC is one of the few research and testing facilities in the world where you find, in one location, unique, comprehensive capabilities for evaluating:
- Comfort and performance
- Objective evaluation of fabric hand
- Clothing thermal comfort (Sweating manikins)
- Clothing subjective comfort (Subjective comfort wear testing)
- Clothing comfort (Physiological wear testing)
- Thermal comfort and breathability
- Fabric cool touch
- Evaporative cooling efficiency
- Wet cling
- Moisture management
- Subjective evaluation of fabric hand
- Glove dexterity and hand function testing
- Glove thermal comfort
- Comfort of head gear
- Comfort of footwear
- Protection
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