Comparing Gender Influence against Age, Corporeal Mass Index and Vision on Comfort Levels to Whole-body Human Vibration

摘要

When studying comfort levels to whole-body human vibration, there are many parameters that influence the results obtained. There is no standard that shows in a simple manner how to evaluate accurately the known effects of vibration on the body, as mentioned in the Handbook of Human Vibration by Griffin. Most Standards do not even mention which variables have the large influence on response. Therefore, they do not provide the necessary information to effectively reduce the vibration effects. The results presented in this work are first attempts to try to evaluate the influence of some known parameters on the threshold vibration levels and maximum acceptable vibration levels obtained for whole-body human vibration. Gender parameter influence is compared against age; corporeal mass index (CMI) and vision to verify which of the parameters have the most influence in the results obtained.