Protective Clothing

Managing Thermal Stress

Inbunden, Engelska, 2014

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Protective clothing protects wearers from hostile environments, including extremes of heat and cold. Whilst some types of protective clothing may be designed primarily for non-thermal hazards (e.g. biological hazards), a key challenge in all protective clothing remains wearer comfort and the management of thermal stress (i.e. excessive heat or cold). This book reviews key types of protective clothing, technologies for heating and cooling and, finally, modeling aspects of thermal stress and strain.

Explores different types of protective clothing, their uses and their requirements, with an emphasis on full-scale or prototype clothing, including immersion suits, body armour and space suits
Considers novel and commercial technologies for regulating temperature in protective clothing, including phase change materials, shape memory alloys, electrically heated clothing and air and water perfusion-based cooling systems
Reviews the human thermoregulatory system and the methods of modelling of thermal stress in protective clothing through various conditions, including cold water survival and firefighting

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2014-08-05
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
Vikt880 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieWoodhead Publishing Series in Textiles
Antal sidor500
FörlagElsevier Science
ISBN9781782420323

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Professor Faming Wang is the head of the Laboratory for Clothing Physiology and Ergonomics (LCPE) at Soochow University, China. He is also the author of over 85 publications and an editorial member of the Journal of Ergonomics and Industria Textila Associate Professor Chuansi Gao works at the Thermal Environment Laboratory, Lund University, Sweden, and has published widely on protective clothing.

Part I Types of protective clothing and their requirements1 Cold protective clothing: types, design and standards2 Cold water immersion suits3 Clothing for protection against heat and flames4 Clothing for protection against hot liquid splash and steam hazards5 Chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) protective clothing6 Ballistic protective clothing and body armour7 Spacesuits: development and design for thermal comfort8 Medical protective clothingPart II Technologies for warming or cooling in protective clothing9 Phase change materials (PCMs) for warming or cooling in protective clothing10 Shape memory alloys (SMAs) for warming or cooling protective clothing11 Electrically heated clothing (EHC) for protection against cold stress12 Air and water perfusion-based personal cooling systems (PCSs) to protect against heat stress in protective clothingPart III Understanding and modelling thermal stress in protective clothing13 The human thermoregulatory system and its response to thermal stress14 Modelling of cold stress and cold strain in protective clothing15 Cold exposure survival and modeling offshore anti-exposure garments16 Modeling heat stress and heat strain in protective clothing17 Modeling thermal skin burning in protective clothing