Measurements of incendivity of electrostatic discharges from textiles used in personal protective clothing

Journal of Electrostatics

Volumn 49, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 51-70

  Kathirgamanathan, Poopathy ^a   Toohey, Michael J ^a   Haase, Jürgen ^b   Holdstock, Paul ^c   Laperre, Jan ^e   Schmeer Lioe, Gabriele ^d  

^a School of Electrical   (United Kingdom)

^b Sachsisches Textilforschungsinstitut   (Germany)

^c British Textile Technology Group   (United Kingdom)

^d Deutsches Inst Textil V   (Germany)

^e NONE

Author keywords

Charging of textiles; Discharges from textiles; Incendivity of ESD; Protective clothing; Surface charge; Surface resistivity; Textiles; Tribocharge

Indexed keywords

AIR; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; HYDROGEN; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; SURFACE DISCHARGES; TEXTILES;

ELECTROSTATIC DISCHARGES; INCENDIVITY MEASUREMENT; SURFACE CHARGE DENSITY; SURFACE RESISTIVITY;

ELECTROSTATICS;

GAS FLOW; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; STATIC ELECTRICITY;

EID: 0034041023     PISSN: 03043886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3886(00)00003-6     Document Type: Article

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