Protective clothing and equipment used for firefighters protect them against their harsh working environment loaded with strong thermal hazards, elevated environmental temperatures, low oxygen concentration and smoke. This book describes an in-depth review of firefighting clothing and equipment, and explicitly addresses the performance of protection and comfort in textile engineering, clothing design, and evaluation. Covered topics include protection and comfort requirements for firefighting clothing and equipment, testing methods, standards and performance evaluation, smart firefighting clothing for first responders and numerical modeling of performance of firefighting clothing.

Key Features

Presents complete overview about the requirements of firefighters' protective clothing/thermal protective materials
Addresses performance of protection and comfort
Includes human thermoregulation system and responses to firefighting working environment
Discusses SMART firefighting clothing and equipment
Suggests "how to improve the wear comfort?

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Cover
Half Title Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Preface
Editor
Contributors
Chapter 1 Textiles for Firefighting Protective Clothing
Chapter 2 Firefighters’ Protective Clothing and Equipment
Chapter 3 Human Thermoregulation System and Comfort
Chapter 4 Protective Performance of Firefighters’ Clothing
Chapter 5 Stored Thermal Energy and Protective Performance
Chapter 6 Functionality and Thermophysiological Comfort of Firefighter Protective ClothingA Case Study
Chapter 7 Hot Plates and Thermal Manikins for Evaluating Clothing Thermal Comfort
Chapter 8 Human Wear Trials for Assessing Comfort Performance of Firefighter Protective Clothing
Chapter 9 3D Body Scanning Technology and Applications in Protective Clothing
Chapter 10 Instrumented Flash Fire Manikin for Maximizing Protective Clothing Performance
Chapter 11 Smart Firefighting Clothing
Chapter 12 Numerical Modeling for Heat and Moisture Transfer through Firefighting Protective Clothing
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