Road loads acting on manual wheelchairs

IEEE Transactions on Rehabilitation Engineering

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 371-384

  VanSickle, D P ^a   Cooper, R A ^a   Boninger, M L ^a  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Design; Forces; Instrumentation; Modeling; Moments; Wheelchairs

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERGONOMICS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; STANDARDS; STRAIN GAGES; SUBJECTIVE TESTING;

LIFE EXPECTANCY; MOMENT DISTRIBUTIONS; ROAD LOADS;

WHEELCHAIRS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; DECUBITUS; DYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; OSCILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICS; WHEELCHAIR;

ACCELERATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIOMECHANICS; CALIBRATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; DATA COLLECTION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EXERCISE TEST; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN ENGINEERING; MATERIALS TESTING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MUSCLE FATIGUE; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; TRANSPORTATION; WEIGHT-BEARING; WHEELCHAIRS;

EID: 0034283562     PISSN: 10636528     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/86.867879     Document Type: Article

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