Optimum load for carriage by soldiers at two walking speeds on level ground

International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 68-72

  Pal, Madhu Sudan ^a   Majumdar, Deepti ^a   Bhattacharyya, Moushum ^a   Kumar, Rakesh ^a   Majumdar, Dhurjati ^a  

^a DEFENCE INSTITUTE OF PHYSIOLOGY AND ALLIED SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Load carrying; Load distribution; Oxygen uptake; Walking speeds; Workload

Indexed keywords

LOAD CARRYING; LOAD DISTRIBUTION; OXYGEN UPTAKE; WALKING SPEEDS; WORKLOAD;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; OXYGEN; PHYSIOLOGICAL MODELS; STANDARDIZATION;

SPEED;

ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FITNESS; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUNG MINUTE VOLUME; MALE; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLDIER; TREADMILL EXERCISE; WALKING SPEED; WEIGHT BEARING;

EID: 58049142554     PISSN: 01698141     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ergon.2008.05.002     Document Type: Article

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