Equivalent comfort contours for vertical vibration of steering wheels: Effect of vibration magnitude, grip force, and hand position

Applied Ergonomics

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 817-825

  Morioka, Miyuki ^a   Griffin, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Absolute threshold; Equivalent comfort contour; Hand transmitted vibration

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOBILE STEERING EQUIPMENT; FREQUENCY ESTIMATION; WHEELS;

ABSOLUTE THRESHOLD; EFFECT OF VIBRATION; EQUIVALENT COMFORT CONTOUR; FREQUENCY-WEIGHTING; HAND-TRANSMITTED VIBRATION; MAGNITUDE ESTIMATION; STEERING WHEEL VIBRATIONS; VERTICAL VIBRATIONS;

VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL);

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HAND ARM VIBRATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MUSCLE FORCE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; VIBRATION SENSE; ADAPTATION; ALGORITHM; BIOENGINEERING; BODY POSTURE; CAR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HAND; HAND STRENGTH; PHYSIOLOGY; VIBRATION;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; ALGORITHMS; AUTOMOBILES; HAND; HAND STRENGTH; HUMAN ENGINEERING; HUMANS; MALE; POSTURE; VIBRATION;

EID: 67349242496     PISSN: 00036870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apergo.2008.06.001     Document Type: Article

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