Prediction of hand manual performance during cold exposure

SAE Technical Papers

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages

  Xu, Xiaojiang ^a   Santee, William R ^a   Gonzalez, Richard R ^a   Giesbrecht, Gordon G ^b  

^a US Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine Military Performance Division   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOTIVE ENGINEERING;

COLD EXPOSURE; EMPIRICAL ALGORITHMS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN TESTING; PER UNIT; PREDICTIVE MODELS; SKIN TEMPERATURES;

RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 85072429915     PISSN: 01487191     EISSN: 26883627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4271/2004-01-2348     Document Type: Conference Paper

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