An evaluation of an adapter method for measuring the vibration on the human arm

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• Personal Author:
  Dong, Ren G. ; McDowell, Thomas W. ; Warren C ; Welcome DE ; Xu XS
• Description:
  The biodynamic responses of the human body or segments to vibration exposure are likely to play an important role in developing vibration health effects. However, no feasible technology has been developed to directly measure the essential biodynamic responses, such as vibration stress, strain, and power absorption density on a human subject. Their determinations generally depend on modeling of the system. The directly measureable frequency response functions, such as vibration transmissibility and driving-point biodynamic response functions, are usually used to calibrate the human vibration models. Hence, the reliability of the modeling depends on the measurement accuracy of these functions and their representation. Although a 3-D laser technique has been available and applicable for the measurement in the laboratory, it is very difficult to apply this technique to measure the human body vibrations in the field. This study proposed using an adapter method to measure the vibrations transmitted to the human arm and evaluated it using the measurements obtained with a 3-D scanning laser vibrometer. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Environmental Monitoring Laboratories Occupational Health Safety Vibration
• Keywords:
  Analytical-instruments Analytical-models Analytical-processes Biodynamics Equipment-design Equipment-reliability Exposure-assessment Humans Laboratory-techniques Laboratory-testing Lasers Measurement-equipment Performance-capability Physiological-measurements Physiological-response Physiological-stress Physiological-testing Vibration-effects Vibration-exposure Vibration-monitors Vibration-pickups

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• Publisher:
  University of Guelph
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Abstract or Summary
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 3 ; West Virginia
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  HELD - Health Effects Laboratory Division
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  51-52
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20045709
• Citation:
  Human vibration - from theory to industrial and clinical applications, proceedings of the fifth American Conference on Human Vibration, June 10-13, 2014, Guelph, Ontario, Canada. Oliver M, ed. Guelph, Ontario, Canada: University of Guelph, 2014 Jun; :51-52
• Editor(s):
  Oliver M
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2014
• NORA Priority Area:
  Construction
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  Human vibration - from theory to industrial and clinical applications, proceedings of the fifth American Conference on Human Vibration, June 10-13, 2014, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/201024/cdc_201024_DS1.pdf
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