Engineering Metrology for Pedestrian Falls Prevention and Protection: Theories to Applications for Designing Safer Shoes and Floors

by In-Ju Kim

Overview

This book explains how to improve the validity, reliability, and repeatability of slip resistance assessments amongst a range of shoes, floors, and environments from an engineering metrology viewpoint—covering theoretical and experimental aspects of slip resistance mechanics and mechanisms.

Pedestrian falls resulting from slips or falls are one of the foremost causes of fatal and non-fatal injuries that limit people’s functionality. There have been prolonged efforts globally to identify and understand their main causes and reduce their frequency and severity.

This book deals with large volumes of information on tribological characteristics such as friction and wear behaviours of the shoes and floors and their interactive impacts on slip resistance performances. Readers are introduced to theoretical concepts and models and collected evidence on slip resistance properties amongst a range of shoe and floor types and materials under various ambulatory settings. These approaches can be used to develop secure design strategies against fall incidents and provide a great step forward to build safer shoes, floors, and walking/working environments for industries and communities around the world.

The book includes many case studies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783030957452
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Publication date:	03/25/2022
Edition description:	1st ed. 2022
Pages:	520
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Dr. In-Ju Kim is an Associate Professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management at the College of Engineering from the University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. He earned a Ph.D. degree from the University of Sydney, Australia. After he received a Ph.D. degree, he has worked for broad areas of ergonomics, human factors, industry and occupational safety and health, applied biomechanics, and sports engineering and technology through a number of research and industry projects from Australia, the UK, the USA, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE over the last twenty years.

He is an active researcher in the fields of industry and occupational safety, ergonomics/human factors engineering, safety engineering, biomechanics, injury prevention, sports engineering, and rehabilitation science and technology. He has published more than 100 papers in leading journals, books and book chapters, and conference proceedings and served as an editor, an editorial board member, and a guest editor of several journals and books in the disciplinary areas of industrial engineering, safety science and technology, and rehabilitation science and technology.

Table of Contents

Introduction.- A New Research Challenge on Slip Resistance Measurements.- Basic Principles of Tribology.- Frictional Behaviours and Mechanisms.- Wear Behaviours and Mechanisms.- Development of Friction and Wear Models for the Shoe-Floor-Environment.- Observation of the Floor Surface Changes in the Pedestrian Slip Resistance Measurements.- Engineering Assessment of Floors/Walkways: Practice for the Prevention of Pedestrian Fall Incidence.- Development of a Tribology Model for Quantifying Slip Resistance Characteristics: basic Concepts, Theories, Experiments, and Validations.- Tribological Assessments of Shoe Surfaces: Identification of Wear Mechanisms and Applications for Slip Resistance Assessments - Case Study No. 1.- Tribological Assessments of Shoe Surfaces: Identification of Wear Mechanisms and Applications for Slip Resistance Assessments - Case Study No. 2.- Tribological Assessments of Shoe Surfaces: Identification of Wear Mechanisms and Applications for Slip Resistance Assessments - Case Study No. 3.- Observation on Wear Developments of Floor/Walkway Surfaces: Applications to Pedestrian Fall Safety Assessments - Case Study No. 1 Observation on Wear Developments of Floor/Walkway Surfaces: Applications to Pedestrian Fall Safety Assessments - Case Study No. 2.- Observation on Wear Developments of Floor/Walkway Surfaces: Applications to Pedestrian Fall Safety Assessments - Case Study No. 3.- Future Works, Recommendations, and Conclusions.