Textiles and Human Thermophysiological Comfort in the Indoor Environment

Angelova, Radostina A.

doi:10.1201/b19118

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“…Hatch [3] defines the comfort as a neutral state, where there is no pain or discomfort. The thermophysiological comfort is a part of the physiological comfort, related to the reactions of the thermoregulatory system [4]. It is based on the sensors for warmth and cold in the body, susceptible to thermal environment, air velocity, temperature asymmetry, etc.…”

Section: Thermophysiological Comfortmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Working in Cold Environment: Clothing and Thermophysiological Comfort

Angelova¹

2017

Occupational Health

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The chapter presents an in-depth discussion over the occupational activities in a cold environment, which can be performed both outdoors and indoors. It explores the differences between working in natural and artificial cold environment. The thermophysiological comfort, the reactions of the thermoregulatory system during cold exposure, and cold-related injuries are presented and discussed in detail. Clothing as the only insulating barrier between the body and the cold environment is discussed, and hi-tech solutions for development of cold protective clothing are presented. The particular application of standards for the indoor environment is considered, and their input for the proper management of the occupational activities in the cold is analyzed.

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Section: Thermophysiological Comfortmentioning

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“…and the consecutive reactions of the thermoregulatory system, which increases either the heat, produced by the body, or the heat losses to the surrounding environment. When the heat production is equal to the heat losses, the body is considered to be in a state of a thermophysiological comfort [4].…”

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Working in Cold Environment: Clothing and Thermophysiological Comfort

Angelova¹

2017

Occupational Health

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“…There have been some books with systematic treatment of the cloth thermal comfort . However when coming to current research activities in this area, what one may find is the utter rarity of the publications on the topic: typing the key phase “cloth thermal comfort” into the Web of Science generated a mere 23 articles, and very few of them deal with the fundamental principles of clothing, and none of those appears sufficiently comprehensive.…”

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“…There have been some books with systematic treatment of the cloth thermal comfort. [2,[5][6][7] However when coming to current research activities in this area, what one may find is the utter rarity of the publications on the topic: typing the key phase "cloth thermal comfort" into the Web of Science generated a mere 23 articles, and very few of them deal with the fundamental principles of clothing, and none of those appears sufficiently comprehensive. Of the 23 papers, one with highest citations [8] is on an attempt to mimic the wool fiber structure into a manmade fiber, by assembling multiscale fibrils into a tree-like channel net, thus providing an efficient heat transfer property.…”

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Unique Thermal Properties of Clothing Materials

Pan

2019

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Cloth wearing seems so natural that everyone is self‐deemed knowledgeable and has some expert opinions about it. However, to clearly explain the physics involved, and hence to make predictions for clothing design or selection, it turns out to be quite challenging even for experts. Cloth is a multiphased, porous, and anisotropic material system and usually in multilayers. The human body acts as an internal heat source in a clothing situation, thus forming a temperature gradient between body and ambient. But unlike ordinary engineering heat transfer problems, the sign of this gradient often changes as the ambient temperature varies. The human body also perspires and the sweat evaporates, an effective body cooling process via phase change. To bring all the variables into analysis quickly escalates into a formidable task. This work attempts to unravel the problem from a physics perspective, focusing on a few rarely noticed yet critically important mechanisms involved so as to offer a clearer and more accurate depiction of the principles in clothing thermal comfort.

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“…Textiles and clothing are an excellent tool to maximize comfort and personification of the working and living environment. Textiles affect the comfort of people in the indoor environment as [3]:…”

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Non-Woven Textiles in the Indoor Environment

Angelova¹

2016

Non-Woven Fabrics

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The chapter presents the basic metrics of the indoor environment that are used to assess the quality of living and working, together with the risk factors and pollutants indoors. From this point of view the non-woven textiles are presented and discussed. Different groups of non-woven materials are considered: floor coverings, wallcoverings, upholstery and furniture textiles, filters of the HVAC systems, etc. Their particular application on the indoor environment is presented and their effect on the metrics of the Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) is analyzed.

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Textiles and Human Thermophysiological Comfort in the Indoor Environment

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Working in Cold Environment: Clothing and Thermophysiological Comfort

Working in Cold Environment: Clothing and Thermophysiological Comfort

Unique Thermal Properties of Clothing Materials

Non-Woven Textiles in the Indoor Environment

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