- Author
- Bamford, G. J. | Boydell, W.
- Title
- ICARUS: A Code for Evaluating Burn Injuries.
- Coporate
- AEA Technology, Risley, UK
- Journal
- Fire Technology, Vol. 31, No. 4, 307-335, 4th Quarter, November 1995
- Keywords
- burns (injuries) | codes | thermal radiation | methodology | skin (human) | heat transfer | clothing | thermal properties | fabrics | optical properties | computer models
- Identifiers
- Injuries CAused by Radiation Upon the Skin (ICARUS); calculation of internally reflected incident radiation; clothing layer boundary conditions; clothing layer transition calculations; skin and vest models; fabric heat response model; skin thermal properties; skin reflectances; assumed fabric reflectances in the visible region; endothermic and exothermic fabric reactions; variation of optical properties with temperature; burn injury evaluation model; temperature-time profile - average clothing layer and skin temperature (K)