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Protective clothing : managing thermal stress /
Protective clothing protects wearers from hostile environments, including extremes of heat and cold. Whilst some types of protective clothing may be designed primarily for non-thermal hazards (e.g. biological hazards), a key challenge in all protective clothing remains wearer comfort and the managem...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Woodhead Publishing,
2014.
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| Colección: | Woodhead publishing in textiles ;
no. 154. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Protective clothing protects wearers from hostile environments, including extremes of heat and cold. Whilst some types of protective clothing may be designed primarily for non-thermal hazards (e.g. biological hazards), a key challenge in all protective clothing remains wearer comfort and the management of thermal stress (i.e. excessive heat or cold). This book reviews key types of protective clothing, technologies for heating and cooling and, finally, modeling aspects of thermal stress and strain. Explores different types of protective clothing, their uses and their requirements, with an emphas. |
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| Notas: | Includes index. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxvi, 472 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781782420408 1782420401 1322027587 9781322027586 |