Safety Testing of Protective Gloves
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چکیده
When working with explosive materials, the worker’s hands are usually the most exposed body part and highly endangered by fragmentation effects. Several kinds of protective gloves are available. Existing standards describe testing procedures for the testing of protective gloves for mechanical risks, but seem to not realistically simulate fragmentation effects. An experimental setup was developed to test the performance of protective gloves under conditions similar to exploding glass ware in direct vicinity to the protected hand. The test should take the effects of fragments and shrapnel on the protected hand into account and be fairly reproducible.
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