Morphological factors extraction of upper limb for young female

Wuhan textile university, Wuhan, Hubei 430073, China

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Abstract

This paper is proposed to extract the morphological factors of upper limb shapes related to the personalized sleeve design. The 36 items of lateral upper limb morphology were measured for 50 young female aged 19 to 22 years old by the photo measurement method. Based on the correlation relationships of morphological variables of upper limb, there are 4 morphological factors of upper limb shapes with eigenvalues above 1 were extracted by the principal component analysis, and the cumulative variance reached 83.504%. Among them, the factors of girth and height of upper limb were relevance to the girths of torso and stature respectively, and the factor of upper limb oblique angle is influenced by the upper body axis inclination, and the arm root height is interpreted as an independent factor describing the arm root shape. These morphological factors provided the references in key feature indicator sifting for upper limb shape subdivisions and the critical parameters in personalized sleeve structure designing.