Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Textiles for Firefighting Protective Clothing -- Introduction -- Fibres used in firefighting protective clothing -- Membranes developed for protective clothing -- Fabric structure and nonwovens -- Chemical finishing -- Thermal protective properties -- Thermal comfort properties -- Summary -- References -- 2. Firefighters Protective Clothing and Equipment -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Types and features of firefighters protective clothing -- 2.3 Types and features of firefighters protective equipment -- 2.4 Key issues related to firefighters protective clothing and equipment -- 2.5 References -- 3 Human thermoregulation system and comfort -- 3.1 Body temperature -- 3.2 Thermal Comfort -- 3.3 Sensorial comfort -- 3.4 Movement comfort -- 3.5 Conclusions -- 3.6 References -- 4. Protective Performance of Firefighters Clothing -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Evaluation and assessment of the protective performance of fabrics and clothing under thermal hazards -- 4.3 Evaluation and assessment of the protective performance of fabrics and clothing under non-thermal hazards -- 4.4 Key issues related to the protective performance of firefighters clothing -- 4.5 Summary and Conclusions -- 4.6 References -- 5. Stored thermal energy and protective performance -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Relationship between transmitted and stored thermal energy -- 5.3 Evaluation method and standard related to stored thermal energy and protective performance -- 5.4 Influence factors of transmitted and stored thermal energy -- 5.5 Future trends -- 5.6 References -- 6. Functionality and Thermo physiological Comfort of Firefighter Protective Clothing: A Case Study -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Materials and Material Structures -- 6.3 Material Attributes Relevant to Thermal Comfort -- 6.4 Use of Absorbent Materials for Improved Comfort -- 6.5 Effect of surface characteristics of inner layer fabrics on comfort -- 6.6 Effect of surface characteristics of lightweight fibre blended fabrics on comfort -- 6.7 Garment Fit and Comfort -- 6.8 Conclusions -- 6.9 References -- 7. Hot plates and thermal manikins for evaluating clothing thermal comfort -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Hot plate -- 7.3 Thermal manikins -- 7.4 Applications -- 7.5 Conclusions -- 7.6 References -- 8. Human wear trials for assessing comfort performance of firefighter protective clothing -- 8.1 Background -- 8.2 Comfort performance evaluation of firefighting clothing -- 8.3 Human trial case studies on firefighting protective clothing -- 8.4 Conclusions -- 8.5 References -- 9. 3D body scanning technology and applications in protective clothing -- 9.1 Introduction to recent development of 3D body scanning technology -- 9.2 Clothing air gap and contact area -- 9.3 Effect of air gap on clothing thermal performance -- 9.4 Summary -- 9.5 References -- 10. Instrumented Flash Fire Manikin for Maximizing Protective Clothing Performance -- 10.1 History of Flash Fire Manikin System -- 10.2 Combustion Chambers and Simulated Fire -- 10.3 Thermal Sensors Employed in Manikin System -- 10.4 Standards -- 10.5 Application and models of flash fire manikins -- 10.6 Summary -- 10.7 References -- 11. Smart firefighting clothing -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 Sensors for firefighters health state monitoring -- 11.3 Sensors for monitoring of environmental parameters and firefighters location -- 11.4 Communication in smart firefighting clothing -- 11.5 Wireless Body Area Sensor Network within smart firefighting clothing -- 11.6 Challenges -- 11.7 Conclusions -- 11.8 References -- 12. Numerical modelling for heat and moisture transfer through firefighting protective clothing -- 12.1 Introduction -- 12.2 Heat and moisture transfer mechanism -- 12.3 Numerical models of heat and moisture transfer in protective clothing -- 12.4 Modelling of skin heat transfer and burn prediction -- 12.5 Conclusions and future trend -- 12.6 References.

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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