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- 8University of Alberta. Dept. of Human Ecology
- 5Md. Saiful Hoque
- 4Dolez, Patricia I.
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- 3Hoque, Md. Saiful
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2023-05-11
Dolez, Patricia I., Chung, H.-J, Batcheller, J., Cho, C., Yehia, D., Zheng, L., Braun, C.A., Khalkhali, R., Lin, Z., Chhetry, A., Saha, A., Hoque, Md. Saiful, Khemir, M., Samaraweera, N.
The protective clothing industry and workers at risk of exposure to heat and flame can rely on some high performance materials developed over the last fifty years to provide the protection needed while allowing some level of comfort. This includes a series of inherently thermal- and...
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2023-01-01
Munevar-Ortiz L., Batcheller J., Dolez P.I.
Tear strength is an important fabric characteristic used to evaluate the serviceability of textile materials and their suitability for particular end uses such as protective clothing. In this study, the effect of test specimen size on tear strength was analyzed. The aim was to determine...
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Investigation of the Accelerated Thermal Aging Behavior of Polyetherimide and Lifetime Prediction at Elevated Temperature
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Cho C., Nam S.L., de la Mata P.A., Harynuk J.J., Elias A., Chung H-J, Dolez P.I.
Fire-protective clothing are manufactured using heat and flame resistant fibers that are made of high-performance polymers. These polymers exhibit a gradual reduction in their performance after long-term exposure under various aging conditions. This study investigates the thermal aging behavior...
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Aging of high-performance fibers used in firefighters' protective clothing: State of the knowledge and path forward
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Md. Saiful Hoque, Patricia I. Dolez
High-performance fibers developed since the 1960s have a wide range of appli-cations including firefighters' protective clothing. Firefighters' protective cloth-ing made of inherently flame-resistant high-performance fibers offers excellentprotection in the new condition. However, these fibers...
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2023-05-11
Hoque, Md. Saiful, Dolez, Patricia I.
Firefighters, workers in the oil and gas industry, electricians, and military personnel, for example, wear protective clothing made of fire-resistant fabrics constructed from high-performance fibers (1). For firefighters’ protective clothing, the outer shell is generally a blend of different...
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Retention and release of odorants in cotton and polyester fabrics following multiple soil/wash procedures
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Abdul-Bari, M Mukhtar, McQueen, Rachel H, de la Mata, A Paulina, Batcheller, Jane C, Harynuk, James J
Odorous clothing can be an annoying and unpleasant problem particularly when odorants are not effectively removed via laundering. Cotton and polyester knit fabrics were soiled with three selected odorants, representing different polarities and lipophilicities (i.e. octanoic acid, 2-nonenal,...
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Polyurethane (PU) based multifunctional materials: Emerging paradigm for functional textiles, smart, and biomedical applications
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Partha Sikdar, Tanvir Mahady Dip, Avik K. Dhar, Maitry Bhattacharjee, Md. Saiful Hoque, Solaiman Bin Ali
The advances in polymer chemistry research have revolutionized the field of smart materials and biomedical. Polyurethanes (PUs) are a versatile polymer class with diverse structure, morphology, and behavior under various conditions deemed suitable for many functional and intelligent responses....
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Odor in textiles: A review of evaluation methods, fabric characteristics, and odor control technologies
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McQueen, Rachel H, Vaezafshar, Sara
During use, textile items can develop unpleasant odors that arise from many different sources, both internal and external to the human body. Laundering is not always effective at removing odors, with odor potentially building up over time, due to incomplete removal of soils and odorous compounds,...
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Mediation and ANCOVA Models to Study the Influence of Solvent Retting Traits and Plant Physique on Bast Fiber Yield and Retting Time
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Ikra Iftekhar Shuvo, Md. Saiful Hoque, Lovely K. M. Khandakar
The study aims in applying two statistical tools to analyze the retting behavior of plant stems for extracting bast fibers for industrial applications. At first, a mediation model is employed to investigate the first hypothesis of this work that involves studying the color response of the retted...