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Intelligent Textiles for Personal Protection and Safety Workshop to be held in Sept

29 Jun '05
5 min read
Since clothing is the most "universal of interfaces", intelligent or smart textiles will again serve as the platform for achieving the goals of personal protection and security for individuals against different forms of terrorism.

The area of smart textiles is a rather new but rapidly emerging discipline with a high potential for payoff in the fight against terrorism, in particular against chem-bio terrorism.

Research is being carried out in this area in several parts of the world.

However, there is no concerted effort to drive the research in the direction of fighting terrorism using this emerging technology.

Therefore, there is a need to bring together the leading experts in the field to make critical assessment of existing knowledge in the area of intelligent textiles for personal protection and safety, and to identify directions for future research in this field.

The Workshop will provide a forum for young scientists and engineers to interact closely with the invited experts and participate in developing the Research Roadmap that they can use in advancing the field of intelligent textiles .

In developing the ARW programme, an inter- or multi-disciplinary approach has been adopted since the field of intelligent textiles for individual protection and safety has the following facets or building blocks [BB] associated with it:

BB 1 - The Threats: An assessment of the various types of threats (chet of the various types of threats (chemical, nuclear, biological, etc.) to be considered in the design of intelligent textiles to enhance personal protection and safety of individuals in the fight against terrorism;

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