Now fire has became a part of daily life of human beings and the role of firefighters as the most efficient people in eliminating the dangers arising from this event is quite evident. For this reason, the use of personal protective equipment such as safety shoes by firefighters is necessary and important. Firefighters experience problems during operations and when using personal protective equipment that sometimes overshadow their entire lives. According to research and field studies, the weight of each pair of fire shoes is currently about five kilograms and the heaviest part of the shoe is the steel cap of the toes area, which deprives firefighters of comfort and ease of operation and also causes a large percentage of problems such as limiting the motion range of the ankle, back injury, decreasing the physical function, increasing the energy consumption by the wearer, heat dissipation and moisture generation, change in gait pattern, movement imbalance and falls, injuries to the upper body, etc. Examining the national standards of Iran related to this field, to eva‎luate the caps performance of toes area in safety shoes, impact resistance, compression resistance and thermal conductivity tests were examined. Also in this study, according to the intrinsic properties of ceramic materials such as low weight, high temperature tolerance, low thermal conductivity, corrosion resistance and high compressive strength, the performance of nonwovens and ceramic foam and composite in order to lighten safety shoes while maintaining the expected properties are discussed as a replacement for the current steel specimen embedded in the caps of safety shoes that the effect of response variables such as type of configuration (ceramic nonwoven, ceramic foam, ceramic composite, presence or absence of steel sheet) and thickness and density in the samples have been investigated and components such as thermal conductivity and compaction of the backing material of the sample were eva‎luated and calculated and after passing the three stages of the test, acceptable results were observed. The results are as follows: the amount of compressive strength, impact resistance and heat resistance of composite specimens consisting of ceramic nonwovens compared to the steel specimen used in the current structure of the shoes, are respectively about 1.4, 1.5, 1.6 improved and also the final weight of the claw made in this research is about 5 times lighter than the steel toe cap.

محمد قانع، مهدي حجازي

محمد شيخ زاده

حسين حسني، پرهام سلطاني