Human-Structure Dynamic Interaction during Short-Distance Free Falls
The dynamic interactions of falling human bodies with civil structures, regardless of their potentially critical effects, have sparsely been researched in contact biomechanics. The physical contact models suggested in the existing literature, particularly for short-distant falls in home settings, as...
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| description | The dynamic interactions of falling human bodies with civil structures, regardless of their potentially critical effects, have sparsely been researched in contact biomechanics. The physical contact models suggested in the existing literature, particularly for short-distant falls in home settings, assume the human body falls on a “rigid” (not vibrating) ground. A similar assumption is usually made during laboratory-based fall tests, including force platforms. Based on observations from a set of pediatric head-first free fall tests, the present paper shows that the dynamics of the grounded force plate are not always negligible when doing fall test in a laboratory setting. By using a similar analogy for lightweight floor structures, it is shown that ignoring the dynamics of floors in the contact model can result in an up to 35% overestimation of the peak force experienced by a falling human. A nonlinear contact model is suggested, featuring an agent-based modelling approach, where the dynamics of the falling human and the impact object (force plate or a floor structure here) are each modelled using a single-degree-of-freedom model to simulate their dynamic interactions. The findings of this research can have wide applications in areas such as impact biomechanics and sports science. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-621260b220a6481ba1ecbc1ae1916c492025-02-03T05:51:55ZengWileyShock and Vibration1070-96221875-92032016-01-01201610.1155/2016/21086762108676Human-Structure Dynamic Interaction during Short-Distance Free FallsE. Shahabpoor0A. Pavic1INSIGNEO Institute for In-Silico Medicine, The University of Sheffield, Department of Civil & Structural Engineering, Sir Frederick Mappin Building, Mappin Street, Sheffield S1 3JD, UKVibration Engineering Section, College of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences, University of Exeter, North Park Road, Exeter EX4 4QF, UKThe dynamic interactions of falling human bodies with civil structures, regardless of their potentially critical effects, have sparsely been researched in contact biomechanics. The physical contact models suggested in the existing literature, particularly for short-distant falls in home settings, assume the human body falls on a “rigid” (not vibrating) ground. A similar assumption is usually made during laboratory-based fall tests, including force platforms. Based on observations from a set of pediatric head-first free fall tests, the present paper shows that the dynamics of the grounded force plate are not always negligible when doing fall test in a laboratory setting. By using a similar analogy for lightweight floor structures, it is shown that ignoring the dynamics of floors in the contact model can result in an up to 35% overestimation of the peak force experienced by a falling human. A nonlinear contact model is suggested, featuring an agent-based modelling approach, where the dynamics of the falling human and the impact object (force plate or a floor structure here) are each modelled using a single-degree-of-freedom model to simulate their dynamic interactions. The findings of this research can have wide applications in areas such as impact biomechanics and sports science.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/2108676 |
| spellingShingle | E. Shahabpoor A. Pavic Human-Structure Dynamic Interaction during Short-Distance Free Falls Shock and Vibration |
| title | Human-Structure Dynamic Interaction during Short-Distance Free Falls |
| title_full | Human-Structure Dynamic Interaction during Short-Distance Free Falls |
| title_fullStr | Human-Structure Dynamic Interaction during Short-Distance Free Falls |
| title_full_unstemmed | Human-Structure Dynamic Interaction during Short-Distance Free Falls |
| title_short | Human-Structure Dynamic Interaction during Short-Distance Free Falls |
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| url | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/2108676 |
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