Relating Human Static Work of Standing and the Coefficient of Friction between the Shoe and Floor Using a Link-System Model
- 1 October 1978
- journal article
- other
- Published by SAGE Publications in Proceedings of the Human Factors Society Annual Meeting
- Vol. 22 (1) , 12-15
- https://doi.org/10.1177/107118137802200103
Abstract
Maintaining a standing posture is fatiguing and additional muscle effort is required if the floor-shoe interface allows easy slippage. Requiring workers to stand on “slick” surfaces is known to be dangerous. A link-system model of the human body is used to calculate the moments at the hip joints required to maintain a standing position. The values of the moments are functions of the coefficient of friction at the floor-shoe interface.Keywords
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