A new technique to measure the vapour flow resistance of textiles

Journal of the Textile Institute

Volumn 90, Issue 1 PART III, 1999, Pages 361-376

  Berger, X ^a   Sari, H ^a   Schneider, M ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

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