A Numerical Tool for Assessing Disaster Related Injuries and Personal Protective Clothing

Abstract

Emergency rescues often face a single or composite disaster environments, such as high temperature, fire smoke, dangerous chemical accidents, explosive, cutting, cryogenic freezing. To research the mechanism of human injury and the principle of personal protection in the disaster environments, the mathematical models of the human injury and personal protection are developed to study the injury mechanism of skin, trunk and respiratory system and the principle of personal protection. An integrated analysis software is developed to simulate the injury process of typical disaster environments to human skin, trunk and respiratory system, which can guide the development of protective materials and equipments. The software system can quickly estimate the risk degree of various disaster environments. It can evaluate protective performance of personal protective equipments, and provide guidance for emergency rescue and disposal.