The vibration discomfort of standing people: evaluation of multi-axis vibration
The vibration discomfort of standing people: evaluation of multi-axis vibration
Few studies have investigated discomfort caused by multi-axis vibration and none has explored methods of predicting the discomfort of standing people from simultaneous fore-and-aft, lateral and vertical vibration of a floor. Using the method of magnitude estimation, 16 subjects estimated their discomfort caused by dual-axis and tri-axial motions (octave-bands centred on either 1 or 4Â Hz with various magnitudes in the fore-and-aft, lateral and vertical directions) and the discomfort caused by single-axis motions. The method of predicting discomfort assumed in current standards (square-root of the sums of squares of the three components weighted according to their individual contributions to discomfort) provided reasonable predictions of the discomfort caused by multi-axis vibration. Improved predictions can be obtained for specific stimuli, but no single simple method will provide accurate predictions for all stimuli because the rate of growth of discomfort with increasing magnitude of vibration depends on the frequency and direction of vibration.
discomfort, multi-axis vibration, standing, whole-body vibration
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Thuong, Olivier
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Griffin, Michael J.
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3 October 2015
Thuong, Olivier
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Griffin, Michael J.
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Thuong, Olivier and Griffin, Michael J.
(2015)
The vibration discomfort of standing people: evaluation of multi-axis vibration.
Ergonomics, 58 (10), .
(doi:10.1080/00140139.2015.1035761).
Abstract
Few studies have investigated discomfort caused by multi-axis vibration and none has explored methods of predicting the discomfort of standing people from simultaneous fore-and-aft, lateral and vertical vibration of a floor. Using the method of magnitude estimation, 16 subjects estimated their discomfort caused by dual-axis and tri-axial motions (octave-bands centred on either 1 or 4Â Hz with various magnitudes in the fore-and-aft, lateral and vertical directions) and the discomfort caused by single-axis motions. The method of predicting discomfort assumed in current standards (square-root of the sums of squares of the three components weighted according to their individual contributions to discomfort) provided reasonable predictions of the discomfort caused by multi-axis vibration. Improved predictions can be obtained for specific stimuli, but no single simple method will provide accurate predictions for all stimuli because the rate of growth of discomfort with increasing magnitude of vibration depends on the frequency and direction of vibration.
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Accepted/In Press date: 20 February 2015
e-pub ahead of print date: 12 May 2015
Published date: 3 October 2015
Keywords:
discomfort, multi-axis vibration, standing, whole-body vibration
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University of Southampton, Human Factors Research Unit
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Local EPrints ID: 406274
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/406274
ISSN: 0014-0139
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