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Covers a variety of areas from materials and design, through protection to specific hazards and finally concluding with specific application case studies. This book aims at giving a complete coverage of textiles for protection.
Smart textiles are materials and structures that sense and react to environmental conditions or stimuli, and their integration into protective clothing has led to the development of products with greatly enhanced protective capabilities in hazardous situations. Smart textiles fo…
Personal protective equipment (PPE) is critical for those dealing with toxic, infectious, and radioactive materials. An easily accessible guide for professionals and researchers in all PPE fields, this book takes a fresh look at how PPE is designed, selected, and used in today's…
"Masks have been a ubiquitous and oft-politicized aspect of the COVID-19 pandemic. Years of painstakingly organized pre-pandemic planning documents led public health experts to initially discourage the use of masks, or even insinuate that they could lead to increased rates of sp…
The purpose of this book is to review current knowledge of the physics and thermal physiology of man's reactions to his thermal environment, outlined above, and how these affect his comfort, well-being and work performance. This is necessary information for the bioengineering of…
