
High Value Manufacturing – Bártolo et al. (Eds)
© 2014 Taylor & Francis Group, London, ISBN 978-1-138-00137-4
Virtual and physical prototyping for compression sportswear
P.K. Collins, M.D. Johnson & D.W. Hurst
School of Engineering, Deakin University, Geelong, Australia
ABSTRACT: For high end compression sportswear it has increasingly become a crowded and highly compet-
itive market with almost all sportswear companies having some form of offering. This work done in conjunction
with a multinational sportswear group explores the use of virtual (FEA) and physical prototyping for a new
garment design to ensure a competitive product in the market place. ...