Contact pressure study of N95 filtering face-piece respirators using finite element method

Computer-Aided Design and Applications

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 847-861

  Lei, Zhipeng ^a   Yang, Jingzhou ^a   Zhuang, Ziqing ^b  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Contact pressure; FEM; N95 filtering face piece respirator; Respirator sizing

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE PARTICLE; CONTACT PRESSURE DISTRIBUTION; CONTACT PRESSURES; FACIAL AREA; FEM; FINITE ELEMENT MODELS; HUMAN SUBJECTS; MUSCLE LAYERS; N95 FILTERING FACE PIECE RESPIRATOR; SKIN LAYER; SMALL SIZE;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; PRESSURE DISTRIBUTION;

RESPIRATORS;

EID: 77957374357     PISSN: 16864360     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3722/cadaps.2010.847-861     Document Type: Article

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