Intelligent Textiles for Personal Protection and Safety
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Author(s): S. Jayaraman, P. Kiekens and A. Grancaric (Eds)
Publisher: IOS Press
ISBN: 1586035991
Format: hardback
147pp
Price: £61.00, $108.00, €90
Review Date: 24 June 2006
Review: This book contains the nine papers given at the NATO workshop in Croatia last December. The remit of the workshop was to bring together the leading experts in the field of smart textiles to make an in-depth assessment of the current knowledge of the uses of such textiles for personal protection and safety and to look at future uses. The papers cover: a ‘typical terrorist incidence response scenario’ and the protection needed against such a threat; a wearable motherboard; filtering materials to protect the respiratory tract; fabric-based garments that include sensing devices; flexible displays on clothing; conductivity-based sensors; and the ergonomics of protective clothing.