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Environmental Ergonomics XII Igor B. Mekjavic, Stelios Kounalakis & Nigel A.S. Taylor (Eds.), © BIOMED, Ljubljana 2007 CLOTHING AND TEXTILE SCIENCE Clothing Invited presentation SMART CLOTHING AND WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY, APPLICATIONS AND POSSIBILITIES IN SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY Hilde Færevik, Arne Røyset, Frode Strisland & Jarl Reitan 132 SPACER FABRICS IN OUTDOOR CLOTHING -PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT WITH THE HOHENSTEIN SKIN MODEL Boris Bauer & Volkmar T. Bartels 133 TOTAL EVAPORATIVE RESISTANCE USING WEAR TRIALS FOR FIVE CLOTHING ENSEMBLES Victor Caravello, Elizabeth A. McCullough, Candi D. Ashley & Thomas E. Bernard 137 DIFFERENCES IN CLOTHING INSULATION DETERMINED WITH THE PARALLEL AND SERIAL METHODS Xiaojiang Xu, Thomas Endrusick, Julio Gonzalez, William Santee & Reed Hoyt 141 CORRELATION BETWEEN SUBJECTIVE PERCEPTIONS OF MOIST FABRICS AND THE THERMAL ABSORPTION COEFFICIENT Uli Spindler & Manuela Bräuning 145 COOLING EFFECT OF A PCM VEST ON A THERMAL MANIKIN AND ON HUMANS EXPOSED TO HEAT Chuansi Gao, Kalev Kuklane & Ingvar Holmér 146 RACE TO THE SOUTH POLE – SCOTT AND AMUNDSEN’S CLOTHING REVISITED George Havenith & Lucy Dorman 150 EFFECTS OF MOISTURE TRANSPORT ON MICROCLIMATE UNDER T- SHIRTS Xiao-Qun Dai, Ritsuko Imamura, Guo-Lian Liu, Xiao-Juan Xing & Fu-Ping Zhou 153 EFFECT OF CLOTHING INSULATION ON ATTENUATION OF RADIATIVE HEAT GAIN Emiel A Den Hartog, Peter Broede, Victor Candas & George Havenith 157 EFFECTS OF QUILT AND MATTRESS WADDING MATERIALS ON BED MICROCLIMATE DURING BEDREST AT MILD TEMPERATURES Ritsuko Imamura, Keiko Tsuchida & Atsumi Morioka 159 PREDICTION OF CLOTHING THERMAL INSULATION BY USING CLOTHING MICROCLIMATE AT 15 o C ENVIRONMENT Jeongwha Choi & Joon Hee Park 162 THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THERMAL INSULATION OF SOCKS 10

Table of contents TOWARDS PREVENTION OF GLOBAL WARMING Mikie Kusunoki 166 PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSES AT 10 AND 25 °C IN WET AND DRY UNDERWEAR IN PERMEABLE AND IMPERMEABLE COVERALLS Kalev Kuklane, Chuansi Gao, Ingvar Holmér, Peter Bröde, Victor Candas, Emiel den Hartog, Harriet Meinander, Wolfgang Nocker, Mark Richards & George Havenith 169 REDUCTION OF HEAT STRESS IN AN IMPERMEABLE CHEMICAL- BIOLOGICAL PROTECTIVE SUIT BY WETTING THE OUTSIDE SURFACE Chris L. Weyl, Brian Farnworth, Sara-Jane C. Lusina, Marghertia Cirillo, Carolyn Wong & Matthew D. White 173 THE INTERACTION BETWEEN PHASE CHANGE MATERIALS AND PHYSIOLOGICAL EFFECTOR MECHANISMS Hilde Færevik, Maria Le Thi, Arne Røyset & Randi Eidsmo Reinertsen 175 DEVELOPMENT OF THE “WEAR“ INDEX Daniela Z. Pavlinić, Andreja Rudolf , Jelka Geršak & Igor B. Mekjavić 179 EFFECTS OF AIR GAPS UNDER CLOTHING ON THERMOPHYSIOLOGICAL COMFORT Yunyi Wang, Jun Li, Jinhuan Pan & Suyan Liu 181 Personal Protective Equipment Invited presentation USING A FLAME MANIKIN TO ENSURE SAFETY AND ENHANCE OPERATIONAL CAPABILITY IN MILITARY, INDUSTRIAL AND RESCUE SERVICES Jim House & Igor Mekjavic 185 PHYSIOLOGICAL AND SUBJECTIVE RESPONSES TO COOLING DEVICES ON FIREFIGHTING PROTECTIVE CLOTHING Chinmei Chou, Yutaka Tochihara & Taegyou Kim 189 ERGONOMIC COMPARISON OF A CHEM/BIO PROTOTYPE FIREFIGHTER ENSEMBLE AND A STANDARD ENSEMBLE A.Coca, R. Roberge, A. Shepherd, J.B. Powell, N. Shriver, J.O. Stull, E. Sinkule & W.J. Williams 192 HEAT STRESS INCIDENTS DURING FIRE FIGHTING RELATED TASKS Ronald Heus & Eric Mol 196 THERMAL RESPONSE DURING SEARCH AND RESCUE: A COMPARISON BETWEEN FIREFIGHTING CLOTHING AND GAS TIGHT SUIT Victoria Richmond, Mark Rayson, David Wilkinson & James Carter 200 IMPROVING THE PHYSIOLOGICAL FUNCTION OF A BALLISTIC PROTECTIVE VEST BY SUPERABSORBENT POLYMERS Volkmar T. Bartels 204 11

Table of contents<br />

TOWARDS PREVENTION OF GLOBAL WARMING<br />

Mikie Kusunoki 166<br />

PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSES AT 10 AND 25 °C IN WET AND DRY<br />

UNDERWEAR IN PERMEABLE AND IMPERMEABLE COVERALLS<br />

Kalev Kuklane, Chuansi Gao, Ingvar Holmér, Peter Bröde, Victor Candas,<br />

Emiel den Hartog, Harriet Meinander, Wolfgang Nocker, Mark Richards<br />

& George Havenith 169<br />

REDUCTION OF HEAT STRESS IN AN IMPERMEABLE CHEMICAL-<br />

BIOLOGICAL PROTECTIVE SUIT BY WETTING THE OUTSIDE<br />

SURFACE<br />

Chris L. Weyl, Brian Farnworth, Sara-Jane C. Lusina, Marghertia Cirillo,<br />

Carolyn Wong & Matthew D. White 173<br />

THE INTERACTION BETWEEN PHASE CHANGE MATERIALS AND<br />

PHYSIOLOGICAL EFFECTOR MECHANISMS<br />

Hilde Færevik, Maria Le Thi, Arne Røyset & Randi Eidsmo Reinertsen 175<br />

DEVELOPMENT OF THE “WEAR“ INDEX<br />

Daniela Z. Pavlinić, Andreja Rudolf , Jelka Geršak & Igor B. Mekjavić 179<br />

EFFECTS OF AIR GAPS UNDER CLOTHING ON<br />

THERMOPHYSIOLOGICAL COMFORT<br />

Yunyi Wang, Jun Li, Jinhuan Pan & Suyan Liu 181<br />

Personal Protective Equipment<br />

Invited presentation<br />

USING A FLAME MANIKIN TO ENSURE SAFETY AND ENHANCE<br />

OPERATIONAL CAPABILITY IN MILITARY, INDUSTRIAL AND<br />

RESCUE SERVICES<br />

Jim House & Igor Mekjavic 185<br />

PHYSIOLOGICAL AND SUBJECTIVE RESPONSES TO COOLING<br />

DEVICES ON FIREFIGHTING PROTECTIVE CLOTHING<br />

Chinmei Chou, Yutaka Tochihara & Taegyou Kim 189<br />

ERGONOMIC COMPARISON OF A CHEM/BIO PROTOTYPE<br />

FIREFIGHTER ENSEMBLE AND A STANDARD ENSEMBLE<br />

A.Coca, R. Roberge, A. Shepherd, J.B. Powell, N. Shriver, J.O. Stull,<br />

E. Sinkule & W.J. Williams 192<br />

HEAT STRESS INCIDENTS DURING FIRE FIGHTING RELATED<br />

TASKS<br />

Ronald Heus & Eric Mol 196<br />

THERMAL RESPONSE DURING SEARCH AND RESCUE: A<br />

COMPARISON BETWEEN FIREFIGHTING CLOTHING AND GAS<br />

TIGHT SUIT<br />

Victoria Richmond, Mark Rayson, David Wilkinson & James Carter 200<br />

IMPROVING THE PHYSIOLOGICAL FUNCTION OF A BALLISTIC<br />

PROTECTIVE VEST BY SUPERABSORBENT POLYMERS<br />

Volkmar T. Bartels 204<br />

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