Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1987
Publication Title
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
Volume
81
First page number:
S71
Last page number:
S71
Abstract
A method for calculating power transmitted to the hands of operators who use vibrating hand tools is presented. Results that relate to a comprehensive multidiscipline NIOSH field study of several hundred chipper and grinder workers who used pneumatic hand tools are discussed. These results indicated that the total power in the frequency range of 6.3 to 1000 Hz transmitted to the hand ranged from 1080 to 7230 J/s for the chisel and from 0.852 to 157 J/s the handle of chipping hammers. For pneumatic grinders the power transmitted to the hands of the tool operators was in the range of 0.00658 to 0.235 J/s over the same frequency range.
Keywords
Energy conversion; Frequencies of oscillating systems; Pneumatic tools – Vibration; Tools – Vibration
Disciplines
Engineering | Mechanical Engineering
Language
English
Permissions
Copyright Acoustical Society of America used with permission
Repository Citation
Reynolds, D. D.
(1987).
Energy Transmission into the Human Hand from Vibrating Tools.
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 81
S71-S71.
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