Wheelchairs used as motor vehicle seats: Seat loading in frontal impact sled testing

Medical Engineering and Physics

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 679-685

  Bertocci, Gina ^a   Manary, Miriam ^b   Ha, Dongran ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Wheelchair; Wheelchair crashworthiness; Wheelchair design; Wheelchair injury prevention; Wheelchair testing; Wheelchair transportation

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOBILE SEATS; LOADS (FORCES); OPTIMIZATION;

MOTOR VEHICLE SEATS;

WHEELCHAIRS;

ARTICLE; BIOENGINEERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FORCE; MOTOR VEHICLE; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEAT; WHEELCHAIR;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT SAFETY; HUMANS; MOTOR VEHICLES; PHYSICS; SEAT BELTS; STRESS, MECHANICAL; TRANSPORTATION; WHEELCHAIRS;

EID: 0035697902     PISSN: 13504533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1350-4533(01)00102-3     Document Type: Article

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