Personal cooling garments: a review

Journal of the Textile Institute

Volumn 105, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1231-1250

  Mokhtari Yazdi, Motahareh ^a   Sheikhzadeh, Mohammad ^a  

^a ISFAHAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

personal cooling garment; thermal comfort

Indexed keywords

HOSIERY MANUFACTURE; HOT WORKING; PROTECTIVE CLOTHING; THERMAL COMFORT; THERMAL STRESS;

HEAT ILLNESS; HOT ENVIRONMENTS; HUMAN BODIES; HUMAN THERMOREGULATION; PHYSICAL WORK; RELATED INJURIES; SWEAT EVAPORATIONS; TESTING PROCEDURE;

CLOTHES;

EID: 84922460226     PISSN: 00405000     EISSN: 17542340     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00405000.2014.895088     Document Type: Review

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