Magnitude-dependence of equivalent comfort contours for fore-and-aft, lateral and vertical hand-transmitted vibration

Journal of Sound and Vibration

Volumn 295, Issue 3-5, 2006, Pages 633-648

  Morioka, Miyuki ^a   Griffin, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION; ACOUSTIC WAVES; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SKIN;

ACCELERATION THRESHOLDS; PSYCHOPHYSICAL CHANNELS; SINGLE LINEAR FREQUENCY; SUPRA-THRESHOLD LEVELS;

VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL);

EID: 33745174532     PISSN: 0022460X     EISSN: 10958568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsv.2006.01.029     Document Type: Article

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