Firefighters' Clothing and Equipment: Performance, Protection, and Comfort

ISBN-13: 9781498742733 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 358 str.

Guowen Song; Faming Wang

Opis

This book describes an in-depth review of firefighting clothing and equipment, and explicitly addresses the performance of protection and comfort in textile engineering, clothing design, and evaluation. Covered topics include protection and comfort requirements, testing methods, standards and performance evaluation etc.

Spis treści

1. Textiles for Firefighting Protective Clothing. 2. Firefighters Protective Clothing and Equipment. 3 Human thermoregulation system and comfort. 5. Stored thermal energy and protective performance. 6. Functionality and Thermo physiological Comfort of Firefighter Protective Clothing: A Case Study. 7. Hot plates and thermal manikins for evaluating clothing thermal comfort. 8. Human wear trials for assessing comfort performance of firefighter protective clothing. 9. 3D body scanning technology and applications in protective clothing. 10. Instrumented Flash Fire Manikin for Maximizing Protective Clothing Performance. 11. Smart firefighting clothing. 12. Numerical modelling for heat and moisture transfer through firefighting protective clothing.