2008 SHOW PREVIEW - Specialty Fabrics Review
2008 SHOW PREVIEW - Specialty Fabrics Review
2008 SHOW PREVIEW - Specialty Fabrics Review
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Textile Damage in Astronaut Gloves<br />
Don Schockey, Ph.D, Director, Center for Fracture Physics, SRI International<br />
3:00–3:30 pm<br />
Astronaut gloves must resist cutting, tearing, abrasion, and unraveling during<br />
spacewalk activities. Currently made of liquid crystalline polyester, the yarns<br />
in the tricot warp knit fabric are showing the effects of contact with shuttle<br />
surfaces having off-nominal roughness. This talk describes the types of damage<br />
sustained by gloves during spacewalks and discusses the loading conditions the<br />
fabric must withstand.<br />
Physiologic-Hygienic Requirements for Materials<br />
for Astronaut Comfort in the Liquid Cooling Garment<br />
of the Space Suit<br />
Victor Koscheyev, Ph.D., Director, Laboratory for Health and Human Performance in Extreme<br />
Environments and Gloria Leon, Ph.D., Professor Emerita, University of Minnesota<br />
3:30–4:00 pm<br />
The effectiveness of the advanced design of the space suit is highly dependent<br />
on the effectiveness of the regulation of heat balance of the human body<br />
under different levels of physical exertion, and for different purposes such as<br />
entry/re-entry, extravehicular activity. The cooling garment has the closest<br />
contact with the skin and therefore is actively involved in the process of heat<br />
regulation, Certain progress has already been made by our group in the<br />
physiological design of the cooling garment. These issues will be discussed in<br />
this presentation.<br />
Ceramic Fibers in Space<br />
Marc Simpson, Senior Account Representative, 3M Ceramics and Composites<br />
4:00–4:30 pm<br />
Long Carbon Nanotube Technology<br />
for Aerospace Applications<br />
Peter Antoinette, President & CEO, Nanocomp Technologies, Inc.<br />
4:30–5:00 pm<br />
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