Slips/falls are a health burden in the workplace. Previous research has implied a relationship between foot dynamics at heel contact and slips/falls; however, heel acceleration has received little attention. Heel acceleration as the heel contacts the ground is the result of the combined effort of the leg joint torques to control motion of the foot. This study aims to examine the association of ...

Numerical simulation of structural response is a challenging issue in earthquake engineering and there has been remarkable progress in this area in the last decade. Endurance Time (ET) method is a new response history based analysis procedure for seismic assessment and structural design in which structures are subjected to a gradually intensifying dynamic excitation and their seismic performanc...

the dynamic response of the railway under accelerated moving load using dynamic green function is presented in this paper. for this purpose, an exact and direct modeling technique is introduced for the railway modeling as the damped euler-bernoulli beam on the partial winkler foundation with arbitrary boundary conditions subjected to the moving load. the effects of the elastic coefficient of wi...

Stop and go traffic that leads to oscillate traffic flow frequently is observed on congestion flow. Unexpected reasons such as lane – changing maneuvers, lower speeds of leader vehicle and moving bottleneck cause stop and go traffic and amplifying delay and environment impacts. Stop and go traffic exactly can’t be modeled by traffic models, and also car following models based on kinematic flow ...

In [1] Amdeberhan and Zeilberger have given a general method, based on WZ theory, for finding rapidly converging series for universal constants. We give another, somewhat different method here. In the form that we shall give to the method, the summand will satisfy a first order homogeneous recurrence but the sum will satisfy a first order inhomogeneous recurrence. What we obtain are remarkable ...