Bioengineering, thermal physiology, and comfort /

Bioengineering, Thermal Physiology and Comfort.

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Corporate Authors: Elsevier Science & Technology; Politechnika Wroc awska
Group Author: Cena, Krzysztof; Clark, J. A. Jeremy Austin, 1938
Published: Elsevier Scientific Pub. Co. ; Distribution for the U.S.A. and Canada, Elsevier/North-Holland,
Publisher Address: Amsterdam ; New York : New York :
Publication Dates: 1981.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Series: Studies in environmental science ; 10
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Online Access: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/bookseries/01661116/10
Summary: Bioengineering, Thermal Physiology and Comfort.
Item Description: Papers presented at a conference held. Sept. 4-7, 1978, at Karpacz, Poland, and sponsored by the Technical University of Wroc aw.
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (289 pages) : illustrations.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9780444997616
044499761X
9780080874692
008087469X
1281985163
9781281985163
Index Number: QP82
CLC: Q41-53
Contents: Front Cover; Bioengineering, Thermal Physiology and Comfort; Copyright Page; Contents; Symbols and Units; Part I: PHYSICAL PRINCIPLES AND MEASUREMENTS; Chapter 1. The physics of the microclimate; Chapter 2. Measurement of thermal balance of man; Chapter 3. Evaluating the effects of clothing on the wearer; Chapter 4. Human skin temperature and convective heat loss; Part II: MODELS AND INDICES OF HEAT EXCHANGE; Chapter 5. Rational temperature indices of thermal comfort; Chapter 6. Required sweat rate as an index of thermal strain in industry; Chapter 7. Modelling of heat transfer in man.