Designing and assessing new firefighting protective clothing for Chinese female firefighters

Dan Dan Lai; Faming Wang

Designing and assessing new firefighting protective clothing for Chinese female firefighters

Dan Dan Lai, Faming Wang

Research output: Chapter in book / Conference proceeding › Conference article published in proceeding or book › Academic research › peer-review

Abstract

In this study, a new set of firefighting protective clothing for Chinese female firefighters was designed. The two most important physical parameters (i.e., thermal insulation and evaporative resistance) to quantify clothing thermal comfort were determined using a thermal manikin under a variety of conditions (i.e. two levels air velocity: 0.4 m/s and 1.0 m/s; two walking speeds: 0 and 0.96 m/s). The existing firefighting clothing was used as a control. Results demonstrated that both the existing firefighting clothing and the new female firefighting clothing had a similar total thermal insulation. The total evaporative resistance of the newly designed female firefighting clothing determined on the standing manikin under the 0.4 m/s air velocity was 18.6% lower than that of the existing firefighting clothing. It was concluded that the moisture transfer ability of the newly designed female firefighting protective clothing has been much improved without compromise of thermal protection.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Textile Bioengineering and Informatics Symposium Proceedings 2016 - 9th Textile Bioengineering and Informatics Symposium, TBIS 2016, in conjunction with the 6th Asian Protective Clothing Conference, APCC 2016
Publisher	Binary Information Press
Pages	222-229
Number of pages	8
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2016
Externally published	Yes
Event	9th Textile Bioengineering and Informatics Symposium, TBIS 2016, in conjunction with the 6th Asian Protective Clothing Conference, APCC 2016 - RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia Duration: 12 Jul 2016 → 15 Jul 2016

Conference

Conference	9th Textile Bioengineering and Informatics Symposium, TBIS 2016, in conjunction with the 6th Asian Protective Clothing Conference, APCC 2016
Country/Territory	Australia
City	Melbourne
Period	12/07/16 → 15/07/16

Keywords

Evaporative resistance
Female firefighters
Firefighting protective clothing
Thermal insulation
Thermal manikin

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Biomaterials
Bioengineering

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Lai, D. D., & Wang, F. (2016). Designing and assessing new firefighting protective clothing for Chinese female firefighters. In Textile Bioengineering and Informatics Symposium Proceedings 2016 - 9th Textile Bioengineering and Informatics Symposium, TBIS 2016, in conjunction with the 6th Asian Protective Clothing Conference, APCC 2016 (pp. 222-229). Binary Information Press.

Lai, Dan Dan ; Wang, Faming. / Designing and assessing new firefighting protective clothing for Chinese female firefighters. Textile Bioengineering and Informatics Symposium Proceedings 2016 - 9th Textile Bioengineering and Informatics Symposium, TBIS 2016, in conjunction with the 6th Asian Protective Clothing Conference, APCC 2016. Binary Information Press, 2016. pp. 222-229

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Designing and assessing new firefighting protective clothing for Chinese female firefighters. / Lai, Dan Dan; Wang, Faming.
Textile Bioengineering and Informatics Symposium Proceedings 2016 - 9th Textile Bioengineering and Informatics Symposium, TBIS 2016, in conjunction with the 6th Asian Protective Clothing Conference, APCC 2016. Binary Information Press, 2016. p. 222-229.

Research output: Chapter in book / Conference proceeding › Conference article published in proceeding or book › Academic research › peer-review

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