Temporary changes in mechanoreceptor-specific vibrotactile perception to stimuli simulating impact power tools

Institute of Noise Control Engineering of the USA - 35th International Congress and Exposition on Noise Control Engineering, INTER-NOISE 2006

Volumn 2, Issue , 2006, Pages 752-758

  Brammer, A J ^a   Cherniack, M G ^a   Peterson, D R ^a   Diva, U A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER FREQUENCY; FREQUENCY-WEIGHTED ACCELERATION; HAND-TRANSMITTED VIBRATION; HUMAN EXPOSURES; HUMAN RESPONSE; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; MECHANICAL SHOCK; MECHANORECEPTORS; POWER TOOLS; REPETITION RATE; SINUSOIDAL VIBRATION; STATIC FORCES; TRANSIENT VIBRATIONS; VIBRATION EXPOSURE; VIBROTACTILE; VIBROTACTILE PERCEPTION THRESHOLD; WAVE FORMS;

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES CONTROL; EXHIBITIONS;

TOOLS;

EID: 84867924248     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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