A Proposal on Methods for Evaluating Mechanical Environments in Door Operations

In this paper, a new method for evaluating human being’s life operations in the buildings from the viewpoints of clarifying mechanical environments are proposed. The acceleration waveforms in door operations were measured by a triaxial piezo-resistive accelerometer attached in the right wrist and the center gravity of bodies. Perceptual evaluations based on SD method was immediately carried out after the measurements. The maximum acceleration, maximum velocity, displacement and energy obtained by numerical integrations and the spectrum inclination values by spectrum analyses were compared with the perceptual ones. As a result, a psued-evaluating method of waveforms are proposed on the basis of relationships between both types of the values.

Mechanical environment

Perceptual evaluation

Door operation

Maximum acceleration