Kinematic Methods for Quantifying Loss of Balance while Negotiating a Curved Path on a Slippery Surface

Journal of Testing and Evaluation

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 135-142

  Wang, Bingshi ^a   Bhattacharya, Amit ^b   Bagchee, Angshuman ^b   Wang, Wenjian ^c   Succop, Paul A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c 705 Engineering Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Balance; Coefficient of friction; Fall; Force platform; Gait; Kinematics; Path; Shoe; Slide; Slip; Slippery surface; Turning

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTS; EXPERIMENTS; FALLOUT; FRICTION; KINEMATICS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PERSONNEL;

COEFFICIENT OF FRICTION; FORCE PLATFORM; SLIPPERY SURFACE;

SLOPE STABILITY;

EID: 0030737187     PISSN: 00903973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1520/jte11334j     Document Type: Article

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