Assessing the performance of winter footwear using a new maximum achievable incline method

Jennifer Hsu1, Yue Li2, Tilak Dutta2

  • 1Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, University Health Network, 550 University Avenue, Toronto, ON M5G 2A2, Canada; University of Toronto, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, 5 King's College Road, Toronto ON M5S 3G8, Canada.

Applied Ergonomics
|May 12, 2015
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