Effect of design of two-wheeled containers on mechanical loading

International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 73-86

  Kingma, Idsart ^a   Kuijer, P Paul F M ^a,b   Hoozemans, Marco J M ^b   Van Dieën, Jaap H ^a   Van der Beek, Allard J ^c   Frings Dresen, Monique H W ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Centre of mass; Design; Handle; Joint loading; Pushing and pulling; Two wheeled container

Indexed keywords

CONTAINERS; LIVING SYSTEMS STUDIES; TORQUE;

MECHANICAL LOADING;

ERGONOMICS;

ARTICLE; BACK; CONTAINER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELBOW; FORCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; JOINT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHOULDER; STANDARD; TORQUE; WEIGHT BEARING;

EID: 0037290806     PISSN: 01698141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-8141(02)00176-2     Document Type: Article

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