The penn state safety floor: Part II—reduction of fall-related peak impact forces on the femur

Journal of Biomechanical Engineering

Volumn 120, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 527-532

  Casalena, J A ^a   Badre Alam, A ^a   Ovaert, T C ^a   Cavanagh, P R ^b   Streit, D A ^a  

^a The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; DEFORMATION; ELASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLOORS; IMPACT TESTING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

PEAK IMPACT FORCES;

BIOMECHANICS;

ARTICLE; BUILDING; ELASTICITY; FALLING; FEMUR; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; FORCE; HIP; RIGIDITY; SAFETY; WALKING;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ELASTICITY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMORAL NECK FRACTURES; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; FLOORS AND FLOORCOVERINGS; HUMAN ENGINEERING; HUMANS; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SAFETY MANAGEMENT; WALKING;

EID: 0032143375     PISSN: 01480731     EISSN: 15288951     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.2798023     Document Type: Article

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