Issues in the development of modern walkway-safety tribometry standards Required Friction, Contextualization of Test Results, and Non-Proprietary Standards MI. Marpet

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Marpet, MI., author.

Contributor:

• ASTM International
• American Society for Testing and Materials
• American Society for Testing and Materials.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Walkway safety.
• Surfaces (Technology)--Skid resistance.
• Pedestrian safety.
• Tribometry standards.
• Slip, trip, and fall accidents.
• Footwear--Materials.
• Footwear--Materials--Congresses.
• Surfaces (Technology)--Skid resistance--Congresses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (16 pages) illustrations, figures, tables

Place of Publication:

West Conshohocken, Pa. ASTM International 2003

Summary:

Walkway-safety tribometry standards need improvements in the area of machine neutrality and in more meaningful contextualization of test results. One of the underlying difficulties in improving these standards is that obsolete and incorrect abstractions of real-world resilient-surface friction underpin existing standards. Problematic abstractions include the static/dynamic friction model, the notion that the underlying friction model is deterministic, and the single-numeric-threshold method for determining whether or not a walkway surface, shoe bottom, or a combination of both, is r is not slip resistant. Significant improvements may be realized by considering required friction in the setting of slip-resistance thresholds and by a non-numeric ranking method for classifying slip resistance. The ASTM Board of Directors F13 Task Group recommendations for a new slip-resistance-testing model are seen to be both closely related to and congruent with the directions for improvement expressed in this paper

Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references
• Online resource; title from publisher's website, viewed March 19, 2017

Related Work:

American Society for Testing and Materials. Selected Technical Papers