1st Edition

Measuring Slipperiness Human Locomotion and Surface Factors

194 Pages
by CRC Press

194 Pages
by CRC Press

In recent decades, injury has begun to gain prominence as a public health and societal problem. Slipperiness and slip, trip, and fall (STF) injuries are among the greatest obstacles to reducing the injury burden. One of the biggest challenges in STF is defining and measuring slipperiness. After over half a century of serious research on what slipperiness is and how it can be measured, rapid... Read more
Measurement of Slipperiness: Fundamental Concepts and Definitions, R. Grönqvist, W.-R. Chang, T.K. Courtney, T.B. Leamon, M.S. Redfern, and L. Strandberg
Occupational Slip, Trip, Fall-Related Injuries - Can the Contribution of Slipperiness be Isolated? T.K. Courtney, G.S. Sorock, D.P. Manning, J.W. Collins, and M.A. Hopbein-Jenny
Biomechanics of Slips, M.S. Redfern, R. Cham, K. Gielo-Perezak, R. Grönqvist, M.Hirvonen, H. Lanshammar, M. Marpet, C.Y.-C. Pai, and C. Powers
Human-Centered Approaches in Slipperiness Measurement, R. Grönqvist, J. Abeysekera, G. Gard, S.M. Hsiang, T.B. Leamon, D.J. Newman, K. Gielo-Perezak, T.E. Lockhart, and C.Y.-C. Pai
The Role of Surface Roughness in the Measurement of Slipperiness, W.-R. Chang, I.-J. Kim, D.P. Manning, and Y. Bunterngchit
The Role of Friction in the Measurement of Slipperiness, Part 1: Friction Measurement and Definition of Test Conditions, W.-R. Chang, R. Grönqvist, S. Leclerq, R. Myung, L. Makkonen, L. Strandberg, R.J. Brungraber, U. Mattke, and S.C. Thorpe
The Role of Friction in the Measurement of Slipperiness, Part 2: Survey of Friction Measurement Devices, W.-R. Chang, R. Grönqvist, S. Leclercq, R.J. Brungraber, U. Mattke, L. Strandberg, S.C. Thorpe, R. Myung, L. Makkonen, and T.K. Courtney
Measuring Slipperiness - Discussions on the State of the Art and Future Research, W.-R. Chang, T.K. Courtney, R. Grönqvist, and M. Redfern

Biography

Chang\, Wen-Ruey; Courtney\, Theodore K.; Grongvist\, Raoul; Redfern\, Mark