Utilization of belt air in underground coal mines has been discussed extensively during the last decade. The Final Report of the Technical Study Panel on the Utilization of Belt Air and the Composition and Fire Retardant Properties of Belt Materials in Underground Coal Mining formed by the Miner Act of 2006 recommends research on leakage, use of booster fans, and escapeway safety. This paper di...

Proper securement of wheelchairs in motor vehicles is vital to providing wheelchair users an adequate level of safety in a crash. Thus far, wheelchair tiedown and occupant restraint systems (WTORS) loading has mostly been examined under frontal impact conditions. Because of the inherent crash dynamic differences, rear-impact loading of WTORS is expected to differ greatly. In this study, three i...

The application of behavior analysis to reduce injuries and deaths resulting from motor vehide crashes is not a new idea. Behavior analysis has been used with much success to promote vehide safety belt use (e.g., Geller, 1988; Streff& Geller, 1986), and increasing vehide safety belt use has been shown to reduce dramatically the trauma inflicted on crash-involved vehide occupants (Streff, Wagena...

The belt conveyor is the main transport equipments in coal field, and its controllable dirve system directly impacts on the running safety reliability and cost in coal production. Starting speed is unsmoothed in the traditional electrical drive system, which causes the belt off tracking or split and even safty accident. Therefore it is theory and practical significant to introduce a novel direc...

Automobile crashes are the leading cause of death for those aged 3 to 33, with 43,005 (118 per day) Americans killed in 2002 alone. Seat belt use reduces the risk of serious injury in an accident, and refraining from using a cell phone while driving reduces the risk of an accident. Cell phone use while driving increases accident rates, and leads to 2,600 U.S. fatalities each year. An active pro...

OBJECTIVE Motor vehicle crashes are a leading cause of injury and mortality for children. Mitigation of these injuries requires biofidelic anthropomorphic test devices (ATDs) to design and evaluate automotive safety systems. Effective countermeasures exist for frontal and near-side impacts but are limited for far-side impacts. Consequently, far-side impacts represent increased injury and mortal...