About this document

Human Resistance to Hazardous Effects by Rutuja Sasankar is a document available to read on EtoBox.

The document summarizes research on human resistance to thermal effects, explosion effects, toxic effects, and vision obscuration. It establishes criteria for assessing fatalities from high temperatures, thermal radiation exposures, explosions, toxic gases, and obscured vision. The effects are interrelated and often combine with panic to cause fatalities. Probit functions, tables and charts are provided to calculate fatality rates based on exposure loads and durations, to be used as guidance rather than abs

Author

Rutuja Sasankar

Language

EN