Ergonomic analysis of grapevine pruning and wine harvesting to define work and hand tools design requirements

Occupational Ergonomics

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 151-161

  Wakula, Jurij ^a   Beckmann, Thomas ^a   Hett, Michael ^a   Landau, Kurt ^a  

^a DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

CTD; Pruning grapevines; Pruning hand tools; Stress strain analysis; Wine harvesting

Indexed keywords

EID: 0003178736     PISSN: 13599364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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