Models of the apparent mass of the seated human body exposed to horizontal whole-body vibration

Aviation Space and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 70, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1166-1172

  Mansfield, N J ^a   Lundstrom R ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR WORKING LIFE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Apparent mass; Horizontal; Modelling; Whole body vibration

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY POSITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MODEL; NORMAL HUMAN; WHOLE BODY VIBRATION;

ADULT; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BIOMECHANICS; BODY MASS INDEX; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POSTURE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; VIBRATION;

EID: 0032697085     PISSN: 00956562     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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