Modeling of biodynamic responses distributed at the fingers and the palm of the human hand-arm system

Journal of Biomechanics

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 2335-2340

  Dong, Ren G ^a   Dong, Jennie H ^b   Wu, John Z ^a   Rakheja, Subhash ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (United States)

^b Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biodynamic response; Finger; Hand; Hand arm vibration; Hand transmitted vibration

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; BIOMECHANICS; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); MEAN SQUARE ERROR; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

BIODYNAMIC RESPONSE; FINGER; HAND; HAND-TRANSMITTED VIBRATION;

PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS;

ARM MOVEMENT; ARTICLE; CLAMP; FINGER; HAND MOVEMENT; HAND PALM; HUMAN; IMPEDANCE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; VIBRATION;

ARM; FINGERS; HUMANS; METACARPUS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; VIBRATION;

EID: 34250817435     PISSN: 00219290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2006.10.031     Document Type: Article

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