Thermal comfort findings: Scenario at Malaysian automotive industry

Thermal Science

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 387-396

  Ismail, Ahmad Rasdan ^a   Karagaratnan, Shashi Kumar ^a   Kadirgama, Kumaran ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA PAHANG   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Percentage of dissatisfied; Predicted mean vote; Thermal comfort; Wet bulb globe temperature

Indexed keywords

AIR; AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY; ENGINES; ISO STANDARDS; PAINT; SENSORY PERCEPTION; SURVEYS;

DRUM TESTER; HUMAN SUBJECTS; MALAYSIAN AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRIES; PAINT SHOPS; PERCENTAGE OF DISSATISFIED; PREDICTED MEAN VOTE; SUB ASSEMBLY; THERMAL SENSATIONS; WET-BULB GLOBE TEMPERATURES; WORKERS';

THERMAL COMFORT;

EID: 84881102855     PISSN: 03549836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2298/tsci111111015i     Document Type: Article

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