Ground reaction forces during human locomotion on railroad ballast

Journal of Applied Biomechanics

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 322-329

  Wade, Chip ^a   Redfern, Mark S ^b  

^a The Andrews Institute   (United States)

^b University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

Author keywords

Ergonomics; Gait analysis; Kinetics

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; DATA REDUCTION; MOTION ESTIMATION;

GROUND REACTION FORCES; HUMAN LOCOMOTION;

GAIT ANALYSIS;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; GROUND REACTION FORCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; KINEMATICS; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; RAILWAY; SURFACE PROPERTY;

EID: 36849000787     PISSN: 10658483     EISSN: 15432688     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1123/jab.23.4.322     Document Type: Article

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