Apparent mass of the human body in the vertical direction: Inter-subject variability

Journal of Sound and Vibration

Volumn 330, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 827-841

  Toward, Martin G R ^a   Griffin, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRY; MODELS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

AT RESONANCE; BIODYNAMIC RESPONSE; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; HUMAN BODIES; MARGINAL EFFECTS; MULTIPLE REGRESSION MODEL; PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS; PRINCIPAL RESONANCE; RANDOM VIBRATIONS; RESONANCE FREQUENCIES; VERTICAL DIRECTION; VIBRATION MAGNITUDE; WHOLE-BODY VIBRATIONS;

NATURAL FREQUENCIES;

EID: 78349248246     PISSN: 0022460X     EISSN: 10958568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jsv.2010.08.041     Document Type: Article

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