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

"...the first to systematically address various protective garments, preventative measures to fight against thermal stress and modelling of themal strain for harsh environmental conditions with various protective-clothing system."--Asian Technical Textiles