Design and performance of personal cooling garments based on three-layer laminates

Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing

Volumn 46, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 825-832

  Rothmaier, Markus ^a   Weder, M ^a   Meyer Heim, A ^b   Kesselring, J ^b  

^a SWISS FEDERAL LABORATORIES FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

^b Rehabilitation Center   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Evaporative cooling; Heat flux; Personal cooling system; Skin temperature

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; COMPOSITE MEMBRANES; COOLING; COOLING SYSTEMS; FABRICS; LAMINATES; SILICONES; STANDARDS; TEXTILE INDUSTRY; WATER VAPOR; WIND POWER;

ADAPTIVENESS; BODY TEMPERATURES; CLIMATIC CONDITIONS; COLD AIR; COOLING ENERGY; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONING; IN BETWEEN; LIGHT WEIGHTING; PERMEABLE MEMBRANES; POWER SOURCING; RELATIVE HUMIDITY (RH);

COOLING WATER;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COLD ACCLIMATIZATION; COMPOSITE MATERIAL; COOLING; CORRELATION FUNCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; HEAT TOLERANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMIDITY; HYDROPHILICITY; LAMINAR FLOW; MATERIALS TESTING; NORMAL HUMAN; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; SKIN TEMPERATURE; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; TEXTILE INDUSTRY; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; TREADMILL EXERCISE; WATER VAPOR; WIND;

CLOTHING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA, INDUCED; MATERIALS TESTING; SKIN TEMPERATURE;

EID: 48749097311     PISSN: 01400118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11517-008-0363-6     Document Type: Article

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