Reactions of Mines-Rescue Personnel to Work in Hot Environments

Heat stress standard for hot work environments in Japan.

Threshold limit values (TLVs) are intended to protect workers from the severest effects of thermal stress and to establish the exposures to heat in working conditions. Earlier, acute heat strokes often occurred as a result of working in hot environments in Japan. However, acute heat strokes recently sometimes occurred in outdoor work environments such as industrial constructions and agriculture...

Heat Stress Management in Hot Mines

Engineering strategies to counter occupational heat stress usually involve reducing the environmental heat load (through shielding, refrigeration and increased air flow) to facilitate heat dissipation from the human body, and/or improved mechanization to minimize high metabolic rates. In the South African mining industry, technological and economic constraints often preclude a purely engineerin...

Prediction of Work Roll Initial Crown according to Desired Strip Profile in Hot Rolling

The final hot strip profile is a superposition of the roll initial crown, the roll bending and flattening crown, the roll wearing crown and the roll thermal crown. In this research, linear regression models are proposed to predict the roll force, the roll wearing crown and the roll thermal crown using experimental data provided by Mobarake Steel Complex (MSC). The short beam theory based on ela...

Human Adaptation to Hot Environments

Detection of anti-personnel land-mines using sensor-fusion techniques

In this paper we present the sensor-fusion results based on the measurements obtained within the European research project GEODE (Ground Explosive Ordnance DEtection system) that strives for the realisation of a vehicle-mounted, multisensor, anti-personnel land-mine detection system for humanitarian demining. The applied decision-level sensor-fusion techniques are Bayesian approaches, applicati...