Evaluation of wheelchair seating system crashworthiness: "Drop hook" - Type seat attachment hardware

Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

Volumn 82, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 534-540

  Bertocci, Gina ^a   Ha, Dongran ^a   Deemer, Ernest ^a   Karg, Patricia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Crash; Rehabilitation; Safety; Testing; Transportation; Wheelchairs

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; CARBON; STAINLESS STEEL; STEEL;

ACCIDENT; ARTICLE; LOADING TEST; MATERIAL STATE; SAFETY; SEAT; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; WHEELCHAIR;

EID: 0035074046     PISSN: 00039993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/apmr.2001.19740     Document Type: Article

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