The complex design concept for functional protective clothing

Abstract

Over the last two decades extensive work has been carried out by a number of institutes with the aim of developing efficient protective clothing for industrial workers, as well as for the armed forces. The primary requirement for both civil and defence applications is protection, respectively need for protection - for saving valuable humans faced with various hazards and climatic conditions. This contribution presents certain peculiarities of a complex design concept for protective clothing, as an important component of personal protective equipment. The requirements for protective clothing are given according to their purposes, functions, respectively type of protection, as well as the system‘s approach to the design, development and implementation of protective functional clothing. The research core focus in the grounded model development as the progression from initial product design goals, i.e. problem recognition, through the idea development in view of technical solution to the developed product - prototype, and finally, to evaluation of the final solution and implementation of the functional protective clothing, and certification procedures.