Peculiarities of Nanostructured Fabrics for Operation Under Thermal Impact

Abstract

The article considers the urgent issue of developing protective clothing for work in adverse conditions during ultra-high heat exposure. As found, the heat-protective military clothing insufficiently provides the necessary preservation and impedes the calculation of the maximum effective time of protective action under severe operating conditions. As shown, the nanotechnology in the creation of modern textile materials tends to grow in accessibility from the economic and technological point of view. Therefore, new capabilities have emerged for modelling technological processes carried out at the nanoscale level. The advancement of this area is fostered by the growing demand for the latest materials with fundamentally new properties. This up-to-date approach is being applied and further developed in the research laboratories of the Kyiv National University of Technologies and Design. As confirmed, in multilayer clothing, the amount of air layers between individual layers of materials is insignificant. In addition, the amount of air layers in the garment package, rather than in the package of materials of the corresponding garment components, is found to be more significant. This is the factor being relied upon in the development of complex types of overalls for critical applications. Design and practical approaches to the creation of effective thermal protective packages applying modern textile materials of the ‘advanced textiles’ class are proposed in order to reveal the possibilities of creating critical components and elements of clothing as a starting point for the development of types of heat-protective clothing