Sustaining awkward postures and overexertion are common factors in construction industry that result in work-related injuries of workers. To address there safety and health issues, conventional observational methods o...Sustaining awkward postures and overexertion are common factors in construction industry that result in work-related injuries of workers. To address there safety and health issues, conventional observational methods on the external causes are tedious and subjective, while the direct measurement on the internal causes is intrusive leading to productivity reduction. Therefore, it is essential to construct an effective approach that maps the external and internal causes to realize the non-intrusive identification of safety and health risks. This research proposes a theoretical method to analyze the postures tracked by videos with biomechanical models. Through the biomechanical skeleton representation of human body, the workload and joint torques are rapidly and accurately evaluated based on the rotation angles of joints. The method is then demonstrated by two case studies about(1) plastering and(2) carrying. The experiment results illustrate the changing intramuscular torques across the construction activities in essence, validating the proposed approach to be effective in theory.展开更多
The creep of a skin layer under a distributed surface pressure was solved by ananalysical method using Hankel transform and Laplace transform.The surface stressboundary conditions lead io a Volterra integral equation ...The creep of a skin layer under a distributed surface pressure was solved by ananalysical method using Hankel transform and Laplace transform.The surface stressboundary conditions lead io a Volterra integral equation of the first kind, which was then solved by a numerical method.The IMSL subroutines DINLAP and DGORUL were employed to numerically obtain the Hankel-Laplace inversion. The calculateddisplacements at two distinctive moments were compared respectively with those obtained by an elastic solution for either incompressible or compressible solid. Thetransient creep responses of the skin layer were also presented.展开更多
文摘Sustaining awkward postures and overexertion are common factors in construction industry that result in work-related injuries of workers. To address there safety and health issues, conventional observational methods on the external causes are tedious and subjective, while the direct measurement on the internal causes is intrusive leading to productivity reduction. Therefore, it is essential to construct an effective approach that maps the external and internal causes to realize the non-intrusive identification of safety and health risks. This research proposes a theoretical method to analyze the postures tracked by videos with biomechanical models. Through the biomechanical skeleton representation of human body, the workload and joint torques are rapidly and accurately evaluated based on the rotation angles of joints. The method is then demonstrated by two case studies about(1) plastering and(2) carrying. The experiment results illustrate the changing intramuscular torques across the construction activities in essence, validating the proposed approach to be effective in theory.
文摘The creep of a skin layer under a distributed surface pressure was solved by ananalysical method using Hankel transform and Laplace transform.The surface stressboundary conditions lead io a Volterra integral equation of the first kind, which was then solved by a numerical method.The IMSL subroutines DINLAP and DGORUL were employed to numerically obtain the Hankel-Laplace inversion. The calculateddisplacements at two distinctive moments were compared respectively with those obtained by an elastic solution for either incompressible or compressible solid. Thetransient creep responses of the skin layer were also presented.
