A standard predictive index of human response to the thermal environment
Temperature and sensory indicates of human response to the thermal environment are often expressed in terms of the known response in a controlled laboratory environment, as a standard. The three rational indices of this type to be considered are ASHRAE's Standard Effective Temperature (SET*) Index, defined as the equivalent dry bulb temperature of an isothermal environment at 50% RH in which a subject, while wearing clothing standardized for activity concerned, would have the same heat stress (skin temperature T/sub sk/) and thermo-regulatory strain (skin wettedness, w) as in the actual test environment; Fanger's Predicted Mean Vote (PMV) Index, defined in terms of the heat load that would be required to restore a state of ''Comfort'' and evaluated by his Comfort Equation; and Winslow's Skin Wettedness Index of ''Thermal Discomfort'' (DISC) defined in terms of the fraction of the body surface, wet with perspiration, required to regulate body temperature by evaporative cooling.
- Research Organization:
- John B. Pierce Foundation Lab., New Haven, CT
- OSTI ID:
- 6494216
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-8606125-
- Journal Information:
- ASHRAE Trans.; (United States), Vol. 92:2B; Conference: ASHRAE annual meeting, Portland, OR, USA, 22 Jun 1986
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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