Thermal protective clothing for firefighters / Guowen Song, Sumit Mandal and René M. Rossi.
| Author/creator | Song, Guowen |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Duxford, UK ; Cambridge, MA : Woodhead Publishing, [2017] |
| Description | xvii, 223 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBook - Materials Science 2016 [EBCMS16] |
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| Series | Woodhead publishing series in textiles ; Number 189 Woodhead publishing in textiles ; no. 189. ^A696864 |
| Contents | 1. Introduction -- 1.1. A brief background on thermal protective clothing for firefighters -- 2. Fires and thermal environments -- 2.1. Uncontrolled fires -- 2.2. Thermal environments faced by firefighters -- 3. Skin burn injuries and heat stress/fatalities -- 3.1. Burn injuries -- 3.2. Heat stress/fatalities -- 3.3. Present scenario on firefighter injuries and fatalities in the United States -- 4. Development of high performance thermal protective clothing -- 4.1. Development of fire-retardant/resistant fibers -- 4.2. Development of high performance fabrics -- 4.3. Development of thermal protective clothing -- 5. Performance evaluation of thermal protective clothing -- 5.1. Softening/melting temperature and flammability evaluation -- 5.2. Thermal protective performance evaluation -- 5.3. Clothing comfort (physiological) evaluation -- 6. Modeling and its implications on performance of thermal protective clothing -- 6.1. Heat and/or mass transfer models -- 6.2. Metabolic heat and/or sweat-vapor transfer models -- 6.3. Further research directions -- 7. Effects of various factors on performance of thermal protective clothing -- 7.1. Fiber properties -- 7.2. Yarn Properties -- 7.3. Fabric properties -- 7.4. Clothing features -- 8. Key issues related to thermal protective clothing -- 8.1. Thermal protective performance evaluation -- 8.2. Design of thermal protective clothing. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2018469208 |
| ISBN | 9780081012857 hardcover |
| ISBN | 0081012853 hardcover |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |