- Title
- A cooling vest for construction workers
- Creator
- Wu, Min; Dong, Joe; Zhao, Andy; Tang, W. C.; Sher, Willy; Chen, Guangwei; Chen, Shuo; Qin, Zhidan; Zhou, Yan; Wang, Ying
- Relation
- Advanced Materials Research Vol. 1061-1062, p. 728-732
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.1061-1062.728
- Publisher
- Scientific.Net
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2015
- Description
- Construction workers are vulnerable to heat stress, and a number of heat-related injuries and deaths have been reported. This study thus introduces a phase change material (PCM) based cooling garment designed for construction workers. The PCM cooling garment will be effective in reducing the workers body temperature and can extend their maximum tolerable time on sites.
- Subject
- construction workers; cooling garment; maximum tolerable time; Phase Change Materials (PCM); thermal stress
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1316790
- Identifier
- uon:23267
- Identifier
- ISSN:1022-6680
- Language
- eng
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