Localised boundary air layer and clothing evaporative resistances for individual body segments

Ergonomics

Volumn 55, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 799-812

  Wang, Faming ^a,b   del Ferraro, Simona ^c   Lin, Li Yen ^d   Mayor, Tiago Sotto ^e   Molinaro, Vincenzo ^c   Ribeiro, Miguel ^e   Gao, Chuansi ^a   Kuklane, Kalev ^a   Holmér, Ingvar ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

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

^c DEPARTMENT OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL MEDICINE   (Italy)

^d TAIWAN TEXTILE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Taiwan)

^e CeNTI Centre for Nanotechnology and Smart Materials   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Boundary air layer; Clothing ensemble; Localised evaporative resistance; Reduction factor; Sweating thermal manikin

Indexed keywords

AIR LAYERS; CLOTHING ENSEMBLE; EVAPORATIVE RESISTANCES; REDUCTION FACTOR; THERMAL MANIKIN;

MOISTURE CONTROL; TEXTILE INDUSTRY; THERMAL COMFORT;

AIR;

ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEVER; HUMAN; HUMIDITY; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; SWEATING; THERMOREGULATION; TRUNK;

BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEVER; HUMANS; HUMIDITY; MANIKINS; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; SWEATING; TORSO;

EID: 84866852957     PISSN: 00140139     EISSN: 13665847     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00140139.2012.668948     Document Type: Article

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