FLOORING MATERIAL IMPACT LOAD MEASUREMENT DEVICE AND FLOORING MATERIAL SAFETY EVALUATION DEVICE

摘要

To provide a flooring material impact load measurement device configured to measure an impact load when a user falls down on a flooring material in a simulated manner, in order to obtain a relevance between a rigidity of the flooring material and a risk of a fracture of femur.SOLUTION: A flooring material impact load measurement device includes: a buffer material 10 formed with a material simulating a human soft tissue and arranged overlapping an upper part of an evaluation flooring material 9 made of the same material of a flooring material; a weight 11 having a weight based on a pressure distribution to be applied to a trochanteric region of a femur by a simulated fall; a striking part 19 formed into a shape simulating the trochanteric region; an impact application part 6 configured to drop the weight and the striking part held at a prescribed drop height according to a height of the simulated fall, and apply an impact by the weight on the evaluation flooring material with the striking part abutting on the buffer material; and load measurement means 8 configured to measure an impact load generated on the evaluation flooring material by the drop of the weight.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 3