วันศุกร์ที่ 23 พฤษภาคม พ.ศ. 2557

Work load evaluation of the school bag carrying of primary students based on biomechanical approach

Sutharin Suvarnaho and Phairoat ladavichitkul
Department of Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok 10330 Thailand
Tel. (662)218-6814

E-mail: jay_roung@hotmail.com

วัตถุประสงค์ :
The first objective of this research is to find the relationship between the primary student strength and their body weight.
The second objective is to evaluate the school bag carrying task based on a biomechanical static model.

วิธีการ :
This workload was evaluated based on a biomechanical static model. 346 primary students (178 boys and 168 girls) aged between 6 to 12 years old were recruited voluntarily for the research. Average school bags weight was 11.76% of the body weight (BW).

ผลการศึกษา :
The results showed that the body weight is not significantly relate to the body strength (R<0.5), then student weight should not be used as an indicator to set safe of the school bag weight. The compressive force on the lower back while carrying the school bag was about 18% of maximum voluntary compressive force on the lower back calculated from the composite strength test.

Credit : RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT JOURNAL VOLUME 23 NO.2, 2012
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