MRI: Acquisition of a High Heat Compatible System for Interdisciplinary Research and Education on Human Thermal Exposure and Safety in Hot Climates

MRI：获取高热兼容系统，用于炎热气候下人体热暴露和安全的跨学科研究和教育

基本信息

批准号：
2117917
负责人：
Konrad Rykaczewski
金额：
$ 41.39万
依托单位：
Arizona State University
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2021
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2021-08-01 至 2023-07-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2117917&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
MRI Acquisition Heat Compatible System

项目摘要

This award supports the purchase of a thermal manikin custom-built for indoor and outdoor research studies in extreme heat conditions. This advanced instrument measures how much heat a human body receives and mimics the thermoregulatory system’s response in different situations. Use of this instrument will avoid the dangers of exposing humans to extreme heat while measuring how heat impacts human health and performance. Such measurements can help find better ways for individuals and organizations to cope with increasingly common and severely hot weather. More specifically, the benefits of this research may include fewer heat illnesses and deaths, improved societal well-being and productivity, improved urban planning, and reduced energy use required for air conditioning of buildings. To advance these topics, the manikin will be paired with a state-of-the-art mobile weather station developed at Arizona State University. These combined instruments will be used to simultaneously characterize the local environment and its impact on human thermal comfort, core and skin temperature response, and sweating. These processes will be measured in various settings (e.g., desert paths, old mobile homes, etc.) and allow testing of traditional and new cooling strategies. The research will be collaboratively performed by a diverse group of students and faculty from engineering, physical sciences, architecture, fashion, public health, nutrition, and sports sciences. The new thermal manikin will expose diverse and underrepresented student populations to new, interdisciplinary STEM research, thus promoting the participation in these fields. With recent instrumentation advancements and custom modifications requested of the manufacturer, the acquired thermal manikin system will be the first in the world to be easily moveable, compatible with high heat, and utilized to conduct multi-site outdoor and indoor measurements. Such experimentation will produce advanced information on the mimicked human thermoregulatory response presently unavailable from simulations, human trials, or current thermal manikins. The instrument will be used to 1) develop novel experimental methods and modeling approaches to quantify evaporative, conductive, convective, and radiative human heat exposure on 35 human body-zones and 2) to evaluate and improve indoor/outdoor thermal exposure and physiologic models and indices under oppressive heat across climate types and personal contexts. The manikin will also be used to accelerate development of a broad range of human-centric adaptations for coping with extreme heat.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该奖项支持在极端炎热条件下购买用于室内和室外研究的热模型定制。这种高级仪器可以测量人体在不同情况下的热量调节系统的反应。使用该仪器将避免在衡量热量如何影响人类健康和性能的同时，避免将人类暴露于极端热量的危险。这样的测量可以帮助找到更好的方式和组织应对日益普遍且严重炎热的天气。更具体地说，这项研究的好处可能包括更少的热病和死亡，改善的社会福祉和生产力，改善城市规划以及建筑物空调所需的能源使用减少。为了推进这些主题，Manikin将与亚利桑那州立大学开发的最先进的移动气象站配对。这些组合的仪器将用于同时表征当地环境及其对人类热舒适，核心和皮肤温度反应以及出汗的影响。这些过程将在各种环境（例如沙漠路径，旧移动房屋等）中进行测量，并允许测试传统和新的冷却策略。这项研究将由一群潜水员和工程，体育科学，建筑，时尚，公共卫生，营养和体育科学的学生和教职员工进行协作。新的热摩尼金将使潜水员和代表性不足的学生群体接触到新的，跨学科的STEM研究，从而促进参与这些领域。随着制造商的最新仪器进步和自定义修改，获得的热量Manikin系统将成为世界上第一个容易移动的人，与高热量兼容，并用于进行多站点的室外和室内测量。这种实验将产生有关模仿人类热调节反应目前无法通过模拟，人体试验或当前热手持蛋白而产生的先进信息。该仪器将用于1）开发新型的实验方法和建模方法，以量化35个人体区域和2）在跨气候类型和个人背景下在压迫性热量下评估和改善和改善室内/室外热暴露，生理模型，以及在压迫性热量下进行评估和改善室内/室外热暴露模型，并改善室内/室外热暴露模型，以评估和改善蒸发，导电，对流和辐射性人体热暴露。 MANIKIN还将用于加速发展各种以人为中心的适应性来应对极端热量的发展。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响评估审查标准，被认为是珍贵的支持。