Productivity model in hot and humid environment based on heat tolerance time analysis

Building and Environment

Volumn 44, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2202-2207

  Zhao, Jing ^a   Zhu, Neng ^a   Lu, Shilei ^a  

^a TIANJIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Heat tolerance time; Hot and humid environment; Productivity; Thermal environment

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CURVE REGRESSION; HEAT TOLERANCE; HEAT TOLERANCE TIME; HIGH HUMIDITY; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HOT AND HUMID ENVIRONMENT; HUMAN BODIES; HUMID ENVIRONMENT; LABOUR INTENSITY; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PRODUCTIVITY MODEL; RADIATION INTENSITY; REGRESSION EQUATION; REGRESSION FUNCTION; STATISTICS ANALYSIS; STATISTICS METHOD; THERMAL ENVIRONMENT; THERMAL ENVIRONMENT PARAMETERS; TIME ANALYSIS; TIME MODEL; WORK TIME;

EXPERIMENTS; HOT WORKING; MOISTURE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPREADSHEETS; UNDERGROUND CABLES;

PRODUCTIVITY;

HUMID ENVIRONMENT; MODELING; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; PRODUCTIVITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE TOLERANCE;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 67449091261     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2009.01.003     Document Type: Article

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