Objective
Craft project 1512 developed a computer programme, COGACS, that serves as a comprehensive and conclusive guide to the buyers of protective clothing. This concept is completely new to the protective clothing market, and is capable of eliminating waste and dramatically improving the efficiency of fit for purpose clothing. Over recent years, the protective clothing industry's focus has been on protection from individual hazards resulting in an under achievement of total performance levels. COGACS contains an index of weather conditions such as temperature, wind speed, relative humidity and precipitation, and demonstrates how effectively various combinations of materials, garment sizes etc. will perform under varying weather and workload conditions. The research and development work proposed here will improve on this technology and advance it to a prototype/demonstration phase in the following ways: 1. It will begin with the further development of COGACS, primarily focusing on the creation of an interactive fabric library. This will illustrate not only how materials perform under different conditions, but also how they interact with other fabrics in performance terms. The properties of up to two hundred fabrics will be thoroughly researched and incorporated in the total performance model. 2. The project team will establish the interactive protective requirements for head hands and feet under varying climatic and workload conditions. This information, when incorporated into COGACS,will enhance the performance quality of the model, by completing the evaluation of variables for full body protective clothing systems. 3. Twenty three climatic scenarios will be studied for the creation of a user-definable. geographic/seasonal climatic database. 4. The design capabilities of the computer modelling system will be expanded to incorporate a facility for the evaluation of localised fit and movement relationships within a clothing system and its effect on performance, using a modified version, (developments to be made in the course of this project), of the temperature and humidity sensors developed in craft project 1512. This facility will establish the relationship between fit and movement. From there, true fit for purpose evaluation, and some quantification of the tactile comfort levels of any given protective clothing solution will be possible. 5. For the demonstration phase of the project, the team will construct a virtual reality simulation of outdoor working conditions with climatic and tactile feedback - to enable the user to experience the multiple micro-climates that are generated within a clothing system, and hence to correctly specify clothing for comfort. safety and productivity. The user will be placed in a specially manufactured suit, which will be capable of generating multiple micro-climates, simulating temperature, pressure and humidity. The user, by modifying a number of 3-dimensional virtual reality icons, can adjust the micro-climates in the suit - effectively by adding or subtracting appropriate layers to his/her clothing until he/she is comfortable and protected. 6. The final stage in this process is the justification and emphasis of the choices made by the user. It will illustrate the necessity for the consideration of physical variation between different users, especially end users of different sexes, and the advantages achievable when both regional weather conditions, and the physical demands on both wearer and system, are taken into account. Eventually, the project team hope to be able to produce accurate systems for each individual, considering not only the external factors described above, but also the metabolic rate of each wearer. For example. every fire-fighter will be able to have a uniform specific to their regional weather conditions, work load, the physical demands of their job, and their own metabolism.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- engineering and technology materials engineering textiles
- social sciences economics and business economics production economics productivity
- engineering and technology electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering electronic engineering sensors
- natural sciences computer and information sciences software software applications virtual reality
- natural sciences computer and information sciences software software applications simulation software
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SK14 Hyde
United Kingdom
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