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8th International Meeting 
for Manikins and Modeling

Final Schedule of Events and Activities

8I3M – SOCIAL PROGRAM


Sunday, August 22, 2010 - Hotel Grand Pacific

6:00 PM          CONFERENCE REGISTRATION AND WELCOME RECEPTION

                                - Vancouver Island Ballroom. Hot and Cold Food Selections, Beverage Selections

Monday, August 23, 2010 - Pacific Institute of Sport Excellence

5:00 PM          MONDAY DINNER BUFFET

                                - 2nd Floor Foyer and Deck. Four Hot Entrees, Salad, Side, and Beverage Selections


Thursday, August 26, 2010 - Hotel Grand Pacific

7:00 PM          FAREWELL DINNER BANQUET

                                - Vancouver Island Ballroom. Choice of Four Entrees, Wine and Beverage Selections

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8I3M - SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM OVERVIEW


MONDAY

Session 1: HUMAN MODELS AND HUMAN STUDIES

Session 2: STANDARDS


TUESDAY

Session 3: MANIKIN DEVELOPMENTS.1

Session 4: MANIKIN DEVELOPMENTS.2

Session 5: FLAME EXPOSURE MANIKINS

Session 6: MODEL-CONTROLLED MANIKINS


WEDNESDAY

Session 7: MANIKIN METHODOLOGY

Session 8: POSTER PRESENTATIONS


THURSDAY

Session 9: ADVANCED CLOTHING SYSTEMS.1

Session 10: ADVANCED CLOTHING SYSTEMS.2

Session 11: CLOTHING MODELS


*Session groupings are approximate and are subject to change.


8I3M - SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM

Monday, August 23, 2010 - Pacific Institute for Sport Excellence


9:00 AM         BREAKFAST, 2nd Floor Foyer                   (Registration Desk Open)


10:00 AM        Welcome and Opening Remarks – 3rd Floor Classrooms       


10:30 AM        SWEAT DISTRIBUTION DURING REST IN THE YOUNG CHILDREN

                        Kazuyo Tsuzuki   


10:50 AM        ASSESSMENT OF THERMAL CLIMATE AND HUMAN COMFORT

                        WHEN USING ALTERNATIVE HEATING METHODS IN CHURCHES

                        H.O. Nilsson and T. Broström          


11:10 AM        PREDICTION OF THERMAL COMFORT IN NON-HOMOGENOUS

                        ENVIRONMENT BY MEANS OF MULTI-SEGMENTED MODELS

                                J. Pokorny, J. Fiser, M. Jicha        


11:30 AM        PHYSIOLOGICAL CHALLENGES FOR HUMANS WEARING SURVIVAL

                        SUITS DURING COLD WATER IMMERSION

                        Matthew White


12 NOON       LUNCH BUFFET, 2nd Floor Foyer


1:30 PM          SPIN/PISE Host Facility Tour          


3:00 PM          DOES PHS (PREDICTED HEAT STRAIN) MODEL PREDICT ACCEPTABLE

                        SKIN AND CORE TEMPERATURES WHILE WEARING PROTECTIVE

                        CLOTHING?

                                Faming Wang, Chuansi Gao, Kalev Kuklane, Ingvar Holmér


3:20 PM          WBGT HEAT BALANCE EQUATION INCLUDING GRAY GLOBE

                        TEMPERATURE – CORRECTION OF WBGT FOR SOLAR RADIATION

                        ABSORPTION

                                Tomonori Sakoi, Tohru Mochida, Kohei Kuwabara  


3:40 PM          EUROPEAN MANIKIN STANDARDS AND MODELS TO CALCULATE

                        THERMAL INSULATION

                        Kalev Kuklane, Chuansi Gao, Faming Wang, Ingvar Holmér


4:00 PM          Social/Networking Session


5:00 PM          DINNER BUFFET – 2nd Floor Foyer and Patio


7:00 PM          Shuttle bus returns to Hotel Grand Pacific


8I3M - SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM 

Tuesday, August 24, 2010 - Pacific Institute for Sport Excellence


8:00 AM         BREAKFAST, 2nd Floor Foyer


9:00 AM          COMMISIONING OF A WATER CALORIMETER FOR USE IN THE

                        CALIBRATION OF SUBMERSIBLE THERMAL MANIKINS

                                A. Kuczora, P. Hackett, M.B. DuCharme, B. Farnworth, L. Mak               


9:20 AM          CALIBRATION OF A SUBMERSIBLE THERMAL MANIKIN USING       

                        A WATER CALORIMETER

                                M.B. DuCharme, A. Kuczora, B. Farnworth, L. Mak   


9:40 AM          DEVELOPMENT OF EMPIRICAL EQUATIONS TO PREDICT SWEATING

                        SKIN SURFACE TEMPERATURE FOR THERMAL MANIKINS IN WARM

                        ENVIRONMENTS

                        Faming Wang, Kalev Kuklane, Chuansi Gao, and Ingvar Holmér          


10:00 AM        COMPARISON OF EVAPORATIVE RESISTANCE USING THE

                        THERMISTOR ON THE WET SKIN AND THE SHELL IMBEDDED WIRE

                        TEMPERATURE SENSOR

                        Satoru Ueno, Shin-ichi Sawada


10:20 AM       BREAK (Coffee/Tea & Assorted Beverages)


10:40 AM        MEASUREMENT OF MOISTURE TRANSPORT AND ACCUMULATION

                        PROCESSES INSIDE 3-DIMENSIONAL CAR SEAT AND UPHOLSTERY

                        CONSTRUCTIONS WITH A SITTING SWEATING MANIKIN

                        Gesine Schrammel, Boris Bauer


11:00 AM        DEVELOPMENT OF A MANIKIN SKIN SIMULANT FOR USE IN THE

                        MAN-IN-SIMULANT-TEST

                        R. Bryan Ormond, Roger L. Barker, Donald B. Thompson, Keith R. Beck, Gerardo A. Montero


11:20 AM        DEVELOPMENT OF A ROBOTIC THERMAL MANNEQUIN FOR

                        EVALUATION OF INDIVIDUAL PROTECTIVE ENSEMBLES

                        Richard Burke, Steve Rodriguez, Nathan Lanci


11:40 AM        DEVELOPMENT OF A THERMAL CHILD MANIKIN

                        Martin Harnisch, S. Anja Mueller, Jan Beringer


12 NOON       LUNCH BUFFET, 2nd Floor Foyer


1:30 PM          MANNEQUIN FLAME EXPOSURE TESTS FOR EVALUATING

                        PROTECTIVE CLOTHING

                        J.D. Dale, S. Paskaluk, M.Y. Ackerman, E.M. Crown


1:50 PM          PYROHANDS: MANIKIN HANDS FOR MEASURING THE THERMAL

                        PROTECTIVE PERFORMANCE OF GLOVES IN FLASH FIRES

                        Alexander C. Hummel, Roger L. Barker, Kevin M. Lyons, A. Shawn Deaton, John Morton-Aslanis 


2:10 PM          A NUMERICAL MODEL FOR INTRUMENTED MANNEQUIN FLASH FIRE

                        EVALUATION SYSTEM – A PARAMETER STUDY TO IMPROVE

                        GARMENT PROTECTIVE PERFORMANCE

                        Guowen Song


2:30 PM          OPPORTUNITIES AND CONSTRAINTS OF PRESENTLY USED THERMAL

                        MANIKINS WHEN USED FOR SIMULATION OF THE HUMAN BODY

                        A. Psikuta, R. Rossi


2:50 PM          BREAK (Coffee/Tea & Assorted Beverages)


3:10 PM          IMPLEMENTATION OF THERMO-PHYSIOLOGICAL CONTROL ON A

                        MULTI-ZONE MANIKIN

                        Bernard Redortier, Thomas Voelcker


3:30 PM          THERMOREGULATORY MANIKINS ARE DESIRABLE FOR

                        EVALUATIONS OF INTELLIGENT CLOTHING AND SMART TEXTILES

                        Chuansi Gao, Kalev Kuklane, Ingvar Holmér


3:50 PM          APPLICATION OF MODEL-CONTROLLED MANIKIN TO PREDICT

                        HUMAN PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE IN FIREFIGHTER TURNOUT GEAR

                        Richard Burke, Keith Blood, A. Shawn Deaton


4:15 PM          Adjourn for the day

4:30 PM          Shuttle bus returns to Hotel Grand Pacific.

                        No other 8I3M activities are scheduled for the day.

                        Enjoy free time to see Victoria-area attractions.


8I3M - SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM

Wednesday, August 25, 2010 - Pacific Institute for Sport Excellence


8:00 AM         BREAKFAST, 2nd Floor Foyer


9:00 AM          A COMPARISON OF HEAT LOSS MEASUREMENTS ON MANIKINS

                        AND HUMANS WEARING DRY IMMERSION SUITS

                        M.B. DuCharme, B. Farnworth, P. Hackett, A. Kuczora, L. Mak, P. Potter, D. Sweeney, W. Uglene 


9:20 AM          EVAPORATIVE RESISTANCE AND THERMAL INSULATION OF

                        CLOTHING UNDER DIFFERENT POSTURE POSITIONS

                        Y.S. Wu, J.T. Fan, and W. Yu            


9:40 AM          A PRACTICAL METHOD FOR DETERMINING CONTACT AREA

                        DIFFERENCES BETWEEN HUMANS AND THERMAL MANIKINS

                        SITTING IN INFLATABLE LIFERAFTS

                                Robert Brown, Stephen Penney, Scott N. MacKinnon, Fabien A. Basset, Lawrence Mak,

                                Andrew Kuczora, Michel B. DuCharme, Stephen S. Cheung, Brian Farnworth   


10:00 AM        EVALUATION OF VENTILATION AND THERMAL PROTECTION
                        REQUIREMENTS IN LIFEBOATS WITH A THERMAL MANIKIN AND

                        MATHMATICAL MODEL

                        Lawrence Mak, Andrew Kuczora, Brian Farnworth, Robert Brown, Michel B. DuCharme


10:20 AM       BREAK (Coffee/Tea & Assorted Beverages)


10:40 AM        POSTER SESSION – INTRODUCTORY COMMENTS FROM AUTHORS


                       
COST-EFFECTIVE AND EASY-TO-USE SWEATING FOOT MODEL,

                        DEVELOPMENT AND FIRST RESULTS

                        Carsten Zimmermann, Wolfgang Uedelhoven, Bernhard Kurz, Martin Rottenfusser


                       
COMPARISON OF MICROCLIMATE BETWEEN A BREATHABLE AND

                        A NON-BREATHABLE SHOE

                        Martin Harnisch, Frank I. Michel, Kerstin Witte, Thi Van Anh Nguyen, Robert Leimer

                        
                       
EFFECT OF LOAD, ITS DISTRIBUTION ON CLOTHING SYSTEM

                        THERMAL PROPERTIES, AND PREDICTED HUMAN THERMAL

                        RESPONSES

                        J.A. Gonzalez, L.G. Berglund, and M. Yokota


                       
EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF NON-UNIFORM THERMAL ENVIRONMENT

                        AROUND HUMAN BODY USING A THERMAL MANIKIN

                        Ikue Mori, Kazuyo Tsuzuki, Tomonori Sakoi, and Takuya Kataoka


                       
A PORTABLE CALORIMETER FOR THE CALIBRATION OF THERMAL MANIKINS

                        Renee Boileau, Brian Farnworth, Michel B. DuCharme, Lawrence Mak


                       
THERMAL MANIKIN EVALUATION OF ENSEMBLE DESIGNS

                        INTENDED TO REDUCE THERMAL BURDEN

                        Thomas Endrusick, Laurie Blanchard, Marc Mathews, Jason Saylor, Andra Kersteins

                                and Stephanie Tew

                       
MODELING OF HUMAN ADAPTATION TO HEAT DURING EXERCISE

                        I. Yermakova, A. Bortkiewicz, E. Gadzicka, N. Nikolaienko


                       
COMPARATIVE STUDY OF VARIOUS UNDERGARMENTS UNDER A

                        DRY SUIT USING AN IMMERSIBLE THERMAL MANIKIN

                        Pratibha Sinha, Marshall Lew Nuckols


                       
FURTHER VALIDATION OF THE MODEL-CONTROLLED NEWTON

                        THERMAL MANIKIN AGAINST HISTORICAL HUMAN STUDIES

                        Keith Blood, Richard Burke


                       
THERMAL AND EVAPORATIVE HAND MANIKIN WITH

                        GRIPPING MECHANISM

                                Ales Jurca, Mitja Babic


12 NOON       LUNCH BUFFET, 2nd Floor Foyer


1:30 PM          Adjourn for the day

1:45 PM          Shuttle bus returns to Hotel Grand Pacific.

                        No other 8I3M activities are scheduled for the day.

                        Enjoy free time to see Victoria-area attractions.


8I3M - SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM

Thursday, August 26, 2010 - Pacific Institute for Sport Excellence


8:00 AM         BREAKFAST, 2nd Floor Foyer


9:00 AM          THERMAL MANIKIN EVALUATION OF PROTOTYPE ARM AND

                        SHOULDER ARMOR

                        Donna H. Branson, Panagiotis Kamenidis, Semra Peksoz, Huiju Park, Su Kyoung An, Cathy Starr               


9:20 AM          COOLING CAPACITY DETERMINATION FOR BODY VENTILATION

                        SYSTEMS

                        Xiaojiang Xu and Julio Gonzalez   


9:40 AM          BIOPHYSICS OF BODY ARMOR ENSEMBLES AND THE IMPACT ON

                        PREDICTED HUMAN THERMAL RESPONSES

                        Miyo Yokota, Julio A. Gonzalez, Larry G. Berglund 


10:00 AM        COMPARISON OF THERMAL AND EVAPORATIVE RESISTANCE

                        BETWEEN TWO GARMENT DESIGNS DRIVEN BY MATERIAL

                        CHARACTERISTICS USING A THERMAL MANIKIN

                        J. Brady, T. Rioux, N. Rao, and C. Winterhalter


10:20 AM       BREAK (Coffee/Tea & Assorted Beverages)


10:40 AM        FUNCTIONAL APPAREL DESIGN FOR THE HUMAN TORSO

                        Patrick Kinnicutt, Tanya Domina, Maureen Macgillivray, Thamizhisai Periyaswamy, Terry Lerch


11:00 AM        CHALLENGES OF HUMAN THERMAL MODELING

                        Eugene H. Wissler


11:20 AM        CORE TEMPERATURE PREDICTION MODELING USING A

                        SWEATING MANIKIN

                        Semra Peksoz, Huantian Cao, Huiju Park, Su Kyoung An, Donna Branson


11:40 PM        A STUDY ON THE EFFECT OF AIR GAP ON COMFORT PROPERTIES FOR

                        FABRIC SYSTEMS USED IN PROTECTIVE CLOTHING

                        Guowen Song, Tian Tang, André McDonald, Lidan Song, and Dan Ding


12 NOON       LUNCH BUFFET, 2nd Floor Foyer


1:30 PM          CHARACTERIZATION OF THE THERMAL AND EVAPORATIVE

                        RESISTANCE OF CLOTHING FOR USE IN SEGMENTAL MODELS OF

                        HUMAN THERMOREGULATION

                        Mark Hepokoski, Allen Curran


1:50 PM          MOISTURE AND CLOTHING LAYERS: EFFECT OF AMBIENT

                        TEMPERATURE ON HEAT LOSS AND INSULATION

                        Kalev Kuklane, Otto Henriksson, J. Peter Lundgren, Ingvar Holmér


2:10 PM          Closing Remarks

2:30 PM          Shuttle bus returns to Hotel Grand Pacific.

                        Enjoy free time prior to the 8I3M’s Farewell Banquet (7PM).