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Modelling of human body and protective textiles for estimation of skin sensorial comfort and life risk of fire-fighters working in extreme external conditions

Coordinatore	UNIVERSITEIT GENT    more  Organization address address: SINT PIETERSNIEUWSTRAAT 25 city: GENT postcode: 9000 contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Ilona Cognome: Stoffels Email: send email Telefono: 3292643633 Fax: 3292643583
Nazionalità Coordinatore	Belgium [BE]
Totale costo	354˙658 €
EC contributo	354˙658 €
Programma	FP7-PEOPLE Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)
Code Call	FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IOF
Funding Scheme	MC-IOF
Anno di inizio	2014
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2014-05-01   -   2017-04-30

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	UNIVERSITEIT GENT  Organization address address: SINT PIETERSNIEUWSTRAAT 25 city: GENT postcode: 9000 contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Ilona Cognome: Stoffels Email: send email Telefono: 3292643633 Fax: 3292643583	BE (GENT)	coordinator	354˙658.00

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'The objective of this IOF project is the application of finite element method (FEM) to model a digital human body (Avatar) while wearing virtual protective textiles (PTs) in order to estimate human skin sensorial comfort and life risk conditions in varied extreme external conditions, like heat, flames.

The methodological context focuses on: 1) achievement of realistic human simulation (RHS) in Abaqus programme and estimation of human tissue compliance and stretch resulting from contact with PTs as well as heat stress conditions; 2) estimation of divergences between the results of laboratory wear comfort and burning tests on manikins and finite element model simulation of human torso covered by PTs.

The proposed IOF project will contribute to advancement in non standard measuring techniques for investigating the interaction between human body and textiles. It will also seek to tease out the mechanisms of comfort equilibrium, skin sensorial wear comfort and prediction of comfort basing and life risk of fire-fighters, which is the novelty.

The project entails a sizable training-through-research component that coexists with research plan as well as enables me to strength my international position as a scientist and to establish an independent position, which have been taken into account while designing my Personal Career Development Plan.

The European host in this project is Ghent University (Belgium) and the third country host is North Carolina State University (USA). The choice of both universities is based on unique combination of top-drawer research units in tangible research domains which together sustain the ideal environment for carrying out the proposed research project.'