Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front Cover; Thermal Protective Clothing for Firefighters; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Woodhead Publishing Series in Textiles; Chapter 1: Introduction; 1.1. A brief background on thermal protective clothing for firefighters; Chapter 2: Fires and thermal environments; 2.1. Uncontrolled fires; 2.1.1. Wildfires; 2.1.2. Structural building fires; 2.1.3. Vehicle fires; 2.1.4. Present scenario on uncontrolled fires in the United States; 2.2. Thermal environments faced by firefighters; 2.2.1. Thermal intensity faced by firefighters; 2.2.2. Types of thermal exposures faced by firefighters.
  • Chapter 3: Skin burn injuries and heat stress/fatalities3.1. Burn injuries; 3.1.1. First-degree burns; 3.1.2. Second-degree burns; 3.1.3. Third-degree burns; 3.1.4. Fourth-degree burns; 3.1.5. Skin burns models; 3.2. Heat stress/fatalities; 3.2.1. Bio-heat transfer model; 3.2.2. Chen and Holmes model; 3.2.3. Weinbaum, Jiji, and Lemos model; 3.3. Present scenario on firefighter injuries and fatalities in the United States; Chapter 4: Development of high performance thermal protective clothing; 4.1. Development of fire-retardant/resistant fibers; 4.1.1. Chemically modified fire-retardant fibers.
  • 4.1.2. Inherently fire-resistant fibers4.1.3. Summary and conclusion; 4.2. Development of high performance fabrics; 4.2.1. Shell fabrics; 4.2.2. Thermal liners; 4.2.3. Moisture barriers; 4.2.4. Composite fabrics; 4.3. Development of thermal protective clothing; Chapter 5: Performance evaluation of thermal protective clothing; 5.1. Softening/melting temperature and flammability evaluation; 5.2. Thermal protective performance evaluation; 5.2.1. Development and application of different sensor types; 5.2.2. Evaluation of thermal protective performance using bench-scale tests.
  • 5.2.3. Evaluation of thermal protective performance using full-scale stationary manikin systems5.2.4. Evaluation of thermal protective performance using full-scale dynamic manikin systems; 5.3. Clothing comfort (physiological) evaluation; 5.3.1. Evaluation/calculation and assessment of thermal resistance, evaporative resistance, and THL of fabrics; 5.3.1.1. Thermal resistance evaluation; 5.3.1.2. Evaporative resistance evaluation; 5.3.1.3. THL calculation; 5.3.1.4. Assessment of thermal resistance, evaporative resistance, and THL.
  • 5.3.2. Evaluation/calculation and assessment of thermal and evaporative resistance of clothing5.3.2.1. Thermal resistance evaluation; 5.3.2.2. Evaporative resistance evaluation; 5.3.2.3. Working principles of various manikins to evaluate thermal and evaporative resistance; 5.3.2.4. Assessment of thermal and evaporative resistance; 5.3.3. Evaluation and assessment of physiological clothing comfort using human trials; 5.3.3.1. Evaluation of clothing comfort using human trials; Chapter 6: Modeling and its implications on performance of thermal protective clothing.