Thermo-physiological comfort and safety of the people who are working as firefighter,
industrial worker, military personnel and race car driver are major concerns. This led to the …

The assessment of thermal sensation is the first stage of many studies aimed at addressing
thermal comfort and at establishing the related criteria used in indoor and outdoor …

Thermal insulation plays an important role in determining the thermal and energy
performance of a building. The effectiveness of thermal insulation is dependent on its …

Fibrous insulating materials are used both for building and industrial applications. They
present interesting characteristics of performance for low and high temperatures and also for …

As numerical models of heat and moisture transfer in porous building materials advance and
numerical investigations increase in the literature, there remains a need for simple accurate …

Hybrid personal cooling garment incorporating phase change materials (PCMs) and
ventilation fans is developed recently and found to be effective from the standpoint of cooling …

The distribution of moisture in state-of-the-art firefighter protective clothing was analyzed on
a sweating torso. After one hour of sweating, only 35% of moisture evaporated from the …

It has long been recognised that heat transfer through clothing is a main constraint to the
comfort properties of clothing. The present work relates to the development of a …

The impact of the k-value change of fibrous insulation materials (ie fiberglass) in a typical
wall–roof system due to moisture content levels on the thermal and energy performance of a …

As a transport property, effective thermal conductivity of porous media has received much
attention due to its wide applications in many fields, including chemical engineering, soil …