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Measuring Slipperiness: Human Locomotion and Surface Factors

Measuring Slipperiness: Human Locomotion and Surface Factors

Published:

December 19, 2002 by CRC Press - 184 Pages

Editor(s):

Wen-Ruey Chang, Liberty Mutual Research Institute, Hopkinton, Massachusetts; Theodore K. Courtney, Liberty Mutual Research Center, Hopkinton, Massachusetts, US; Raoul Grongvist, Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Helsinki, Finland; Mark Redfern, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

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Hardback

$139.95

ISBN 9780415298285

Cat# TF1578

Features

Provides recommendations for improvements in methodology and for future research directions

Covers essential definitions, basic concepts, and theoretical challenges in STF and slipperiness measurement

Supplies a foundation of data on occupational STF injuries and related disability and discusses potential improvements in STF injury surveillance

Discusses the influence of biomechanics and postural control in slips and falls

Summarizes the techniques for measuring surface roughness and surface roughness parameters used in the literature

Summary

In recent decades, injury has begun to gain prominence as a public health and societal problem. Slipperiness and slip, trip, and fall (STF) injuries are among the greatest obstacles to reducing the injury burden. One of the biggest challenges in STF is defining and measuring slipperiness. After over half a century of serious research on what slipperiness is and how it can be measured, rapid progress has been made in the decade of the 90s.

Measuring Slipperiness: Human Locomotion and Surface Factors provides an overview of basic concepts and definitions of terms related to the 'measurement of slipperiness' from the onset of a foot slide to a gradual loss of balance and a fall. The book includes expert group perspectives on human-centered (biomechanical, locomotive, perceptual, and cognitive), and surface-centered (roughness, friction) aspects and approaches. It addresses the injury burden of slipperiness, globally reviews existing slipmeters, and summarizes areas of consensus in the field of slipperiness measurement.

Perhaps the most comprehensive treatment of the subject ever compiled, the book contains contributions from North America, Europe, Asia, and Oceania including the National Laboratories of Finland, France, the U.K., and the U.S. A valuable, state-of-the-art textbook, it provides students with a useful starting point for understanding the many aspects of STF.

Measurement of Slipperiness: Fundamental Concepts and Definitions, R. Grönqvist, W.-R. Chang, T.K. Courtney, T.B. Leamon, M.S. Redfern, and L. Strandberg
Occupational Slip, Trip, Fall-Related Injuries - Can the Contribution of Slipperiness be Isolated? T.K. Courtney, G.S. Sorock, D.P. Manning, J.W. Collins, and M.A. Hopbein-Jenny
Biomechanics of Slips, M.S. Redfern, R. Cham, K. Gielo-Perezak, R. Grönqvist, M.Hirvonen, H. Lanshammar, M. Marpet, C.Y.-C. Pai, and C. Powers
Human-Centered Approaches in Slipperiness Measurement, R. Grönqvist, J. Abeysekera, G. Gard, S.M. Hsiang, T.B. Leamon, D.J. Newman, K. Gielo-Perezak, T.E. Lockhart, and C.Y.-C. Pai
The Role of Surface Roughness in the Measurement of Slipperiness, W.-R. Chang, I.-J. Kim, D.P. Manning, and Y. Bunterngchit
The Role of Friction in the Measurement of Slipperiness, Part 1: Friction Measurement and Definition of Test Conditions, W.-R. Chang, R. Grönqvist, S. Leclerq, R. Myung, L. Makkonen, L. Strandberg, R.J. Brungraber, U. Mattke, and S.C. Thorpe
The Role of Friction in the Measurement of Slipperiness, Part 2: Survey of Friction Measurement Devices, W.-R. Chang, R. Grönqvist, S. Leclercq, R.J. Brungraber, U. Mattke, L. Strandberg, S.C. Thorpe, R. Myung, L. Makkonen, and T.K. Courtney
Measuring Slipperiness - Discussions on the State of the Art and Future Research, W.-R. Chang, T.K. Courtney, R. Grönqvist, and M. Redfern