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Human Body Response

Mrigank Gupta

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Road Bumps/Humps and Human Body

Response

Mrigank Gupta

Cover Page: Calculated acceleration (top) in the seat of an ordinary car traveling at the allowed speed of 30 km/h over a common road hump called ‘concrete pillow’ (height profile shown in inset). Accumulated lifelong vibration dose (bottom) for a taxi driver passing the road hump 25 times a day, as function of age. This normalized dose estimates the risk of obtaining a permanent spinal cord injury. In this thesis a toolbox is presented which calculates this dose from the height profile of any arbitrarily shaped road hump and given vehicle model.

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Abstract

Road Bumps/Humps and Human Body Response

We have developed a toolbox for the analysis and synthesis of speed control humps/ bumps.

It allows for studying the impact of road hump/bump on the human body. It reports the

accumulated vibration dose as a probability of obtaining a spinal cord injury for life long

exposure. It also allows to construct an optimum road hump/bump in accordance to user wish

for the speed limit, level of discomfort and the rise period for the hump/bump.

Road bumps/humps are found in every part of the world in various shapes. Under the

unavailability of any standardize text for the construction of road humps/bumps, different

countries follow different shapes and have developed there own rules to develop them. In

many countries which are not so developed, these road bumps/humps are built on one's own

instinct. Present research shows that there isn't any clear technology for constructing them.

Different countries follow different shapes but there is no practical tool to analyze them on

the grounds of human body response.

This toolbox makes all the analysis possible for any shape of the road hump/bump which

otherwise is too complicated and tedious. In addition, the toolbox allows to create an

optimize road hump/bump according to speed requirement. Hence, this toolbox finds its

applicability in any part of world.

Key words: Road, Bump, Hump, Human, Response, Spinal, Cord, Dynamic, Digital, Filter, Acceleration, Vehicle, Car, Bus

SP Sveriges Tekniska Forskningsinstitut SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden SP Report 2009:14

ISBN 978-91-85829-98-9 ISSN 0284-5172

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Contents

Abstract 1

Contents 2

Acknowledgement 3

Road Bumps / Humps and Human Body Response (Draft)

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1

Introduction 4

2

The Toolbox

4

2.1 The Analysis 4 2.2 The Synthesis 6

3

Example 6

3.1 Analysis 6 3.2 Synthesis 7

4

Method 7

4.1 Vibration model of vehicle 7

4.2 Time domain propagators – digital filtering 9

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Solution Procedure

9

5.1 Analysis 9

5.2 Synthesis 9

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Conclusion 10

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Acknowledgement

I would like to extend special gratitude to Dr. J.P. Hessling for providing a project that gave

me a practical insight in the area of Dynamics and Vibration of Machinery and mentoring all

through the internship. The internship was very well structured with a clear aim to work for.

He always motivated and encouraged me to come up with new ideas. Working under his

guidance was a great learning experience.

I would also like to thank SP Technical Research Institute for supporting our research work

and providing a unique working ambiance.

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Road Bumps / Humps and Human Body Response (Draft)

(Implementing a graphical user interface for Analyses and Synthesis of Road Humps/Bumps)

Mrigank Gupta

a

, J.P. Hessling

b

a

Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur

b

SP Technical Research Institute of Sweden, Measurement Technology

a

mrigank@iitk.ac.in

,

b

peter.hessling@sp.se

Abstract

We have developed a toolbox for the analysis and synthesis of speed control humps/ bumps. It allows for studying the impact of road hump/bump on the human body. It reports the accumulated vibration dose as a probability of obtaining a spinal cord injury for life long exposure. It also allows to construct an optimum road hump/bump in accordance to user wish for the speed limit, level of discomfort and the rise period for the hump/bump.

1

Introduction

Road humps and bumps [1] are intentionally constructed part of roads used for speed reduction. Structurally similar a bump is ten times shorter and about the same height as of a hump but effective enough to reduce the vehicle speed to 15 to 20 km/h unlike the hump which reduces to 20 to 30 km/h. They have been proven as the most instrumental in vehicle speed control and nowadays, they are widespread all over the world. But their negative effects such as noise and vehicle damage have sometimes created controversies against its use. Moreover, during several years drivers and passengers have been complaining about too strong impact from poorly made humps. With the rising number of road humps the pressure on human body have increased tremendously and the worst affected are the bus drivers [2] and the daily commuters.

Addressing to these problems their have been some research going on in different parts of the world and moreover, there is a recent (2004) standard ISO2631–5 [3] to evaluate human exposure to impulse acceleration. But since these road bumps occur in many different shapes and sizes its a challenge to study them all and find an optimum hump/bump according to need.

2

The Toolbox

The toolbox is developed with the intention of making the study of road hump/bump profiles as well as creating a optimum road hump/bump

according to need much more quicker with a high level of accuracy. Theory of system is beautiful, but the underlying mathematics is rather complicated. Solving equations is both tedious and time consuming. Hence, power of computers and of programming languages has allowed us to develop new solutions for the problem. It allows for studying many passages of humps/bumps for all common vehicles running at various speeds. The program directly relates human body reaction to road humps/bumps.

The toolbox is developed for MATLAB [4] which is a powerful tool for scientific calculations. The toolbox supports two modes Analysis and Synthesis. The Analysis, it measures the impact of road humps/bumps on human body in accordance to the Standard [3] and reports accumulated vibration dose ie R value as a probability of obtaining an injury for life long exposure. The Synthesis, it generates an optimal road hump/bump profile for a speed (Figure 1).

Figure 1 The start page.

The opening GUI has two buttons corresponding to the analysis and the synthesis. Selecting either of one and pressing “NEXT” will open the corresponding GUI.

2.1 The Analysis

Selecting analysis will open a GUI where the user have to give input (Figure 2).

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Figure 2 The analysis mode.

The parameters which the user have to enter are as follows :

a) Type of Vehicle.

b) Road bump/hump profile.

c) Speed at which vehicle passes over the bump/hump.

d) Number of passages per day. e) Number of exposure days per year. f) Age of the Person.

g) Years the person is being exposed to the situation.

h) Years after which the health condition is inquired.

For the convenience of user default values or the typical values have been entered for all the parameters. In case of Vehicle, when the user select a car or a bus a GUI pop up (Figure 3).

Figure 3 Input for vehicle parameters.

The GUI shows the mathematical model, a linear model considered for the car or the bus on the left and all the parameters governing the model on the right (see Section 5). Again, the default or typical values of these parameters have been entered and pressing “DONE” will select the vehicle and return to last GUI.

For road hump profile user have two options, either to select from sample profiles or create a new profile. In the former case, selecting a profile will show a preview of the profile (Figure 4).

Figure 4 Example of road hump profile.

In the latter case, selecting the button “Create hump” will open a GUI with a two column Excel sheet to give input as distance vs height data (Figure 5). Clicking the “Preview” button will show the profile generated.

Figure 5 Manual input of road hump profile.

The toolbox allows the user to carry out analysis of multiple situation simultaneously with showing the effects for each situation. A situation is defined by giving parameters from a) to c). For defining a new situation user can vary any one or more parameter from a) to c) while keeping the rest of the parameters same. On selecting “Guidelines” a step by step procedure is listed (Figure 6) to help the user using the toolbox for multiple situation.

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Figure 6 Guideline for multiple situations.

The GUI also shows “History of Selection” which shows the situation selected and updates automatically after each selection. Pressing the “PROCEED” will open the GUI which shows the result for the situation (Figure 7).

Figure 7 Result of analysis.

The GUI shows the graph between R-value and age and reports the R value at the inquired age. It also reports the critical age when R equals 1.

2.2 The Synthesis

Selecting synthesis will open the GUI as below (Figure 8) for user to enter input.

Figure 8 The synthesis mode.

The parameters which are required are as follows:

a) Type of Vehicle. b) Limiting Speed.

c) Maximum acceleration of the vehicle at the seat position due to front wheel hit only.

d) Duration of front wheel going up to the top of the hump/bump.

As before the default or typical values have been entered. Vehicle selection is same as in analysis part. After entering all the values of the parameters, clicking on “PROCEED” button will open a GUI with results (Figure 9).

Figure 9 GUI for selecting length of road hump.

The GUI shows a slider which can be varied to vary the length of the hump, the hump itself and the graph between acceleration of the vehicle at the seat position. On clicking on the “Profile data sheet”, below the hump profile, a new GUI will open which shows a table of variation of height of the hump with distance (Figure 10).

Figure 10 Synthesized road hump profile.

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Example

3.1 Analysis

Consider a typical bus passing over a road hump (Figure 11) at a speed of 25km/h. For the analysis of the bus driver's health condition other parameters are taken as (Section 2.1):

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d) 50

e) 240 days (number of working days/yr) f) 25 yr old g) 5 yr h) 40yr -2 -1 0 1 2 3 4 5 0 0.01 0.02 0.03 0.04 0.05 0.06 0.07 0.08 0.09 0.1 distance(m) he igh t(m /s )

Figure 11 Road hump profile ‘concrete pillow’ selected for the example of analysis.

Figure 12 The result of the analyzed example – accumulated vibration dose as function of age.

3.2 Synthesis

Consider the user need to construct a road hump for a bus which can put a speed limit of 25km/h. Taking the parameter c) and d) as 0.4m/s2 and

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Figure 13 The optimized acceleration at seat position for the example of synthesis.

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Figure 14 The result for the example of synthesis – the road hump profile.

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Method

The interaction between the vehicle and the road profile have been modelled and solved in two steps: 1. A vibration model is set up and reduced into a s-plane transfer function (section 4.1). 2. Time domain propagators are synthesized as two digital filters, for the analysis and synthesis problems respectively (section 4.2).

4.1 Vibration model of vehicle

The vehicle is modelled linearly as damped spring mass system [5]. The double axle model consists of five damped spring mass subsystem. The vehicle body mass is very large with respect to the combined mass of the seat and the person so the effect of seat on vehicle body is negligible. Hence, the dynamics of seat is considered separately.

There are four degrees of freedom

(

x1,x2,x3,x4

)

associated to vehicle (Figure 15)

corresponding to the vertical translation of masses

(

m1,m2,m3

)

, and rotation of m3. The input

‘signals’ xi1 and xi2 are the coordinates of the

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In practice, xi2 would be time delay of xi1. The

dynamic equations of the vehicle governed by Newton's laws of motion are as follows:

(

) (

)

(

)

(

)

⎪ ⎪ ⎩ ⎪⎪ ⎨ ⎧ ⎟⎟ ⎠ ⎞ ⎜⎜ ⎝ ⎛ + ⎟⎟ ⎠ ⎞ ⎜⎜ ⎝ ⎛ + ⎟⎟ ⎠ ⎞ ⎜⎜ ⎝ ⎛ + − ⎟⎟ ⎠ ⎞ ⎜⎜ ⎝ ⎛ + − = ⎪ ⎪ ⎩ ⎪⎪ ⎨ ⎧ ⎟⎟ ⎠ ⎞ ⎜⎜ ⎝ ⎛ − ⎟⎟ ⎠ ⎞ ⎜⎜ ⎝ ⎛ − ⎟⎟ ⎠ ⎞ ⎜⎜ ⎝ ⎛ + − ⎟⎟ ⎠ ⎞ ⎜⎜ ⎝ ⎛ + − = ⎜ ⎜ ⎜ ⎝ ⎛ − − + − ⎟⎟ ⎠ ⎞ ⎜⎜ ⎝ ⎛ + + ⎟⎟ ⎠ ⎞ ⎜⎜ ⎝ ⎛ = ⎪⎩ ⎪ ⎨ ⎧ − − + − ⎟⎟ ⎠ ⎞ ⎜⎜ ⎝ ⎛ + + ⎟⎟ ⎠ ⎞ ⎜⎜ ⎝ ⎛ + = 2 2 4 2 3 2 2 2 4 2 3 2 1 1 4 1 3 1 1 1 4 1 3 1 4 2 3 2 4 2 3 2 2 4 2 3 2 1 4 1 3 1 1 4 1 3 1 3 3 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 4 2 3 2 2 4 2 3 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 4 1 3 1 1 4 1 3 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 l L l x x x c l L l x x x k l L l x x x c l L l x x x k L x R m L l x x x c L l x x x k L l x x x c L l x x x k x m x x c x x ki L l x x x c L l x x x k x m x x c x x ki L l x x x c L l x x x k x m g i i i i i i & & & & & & && & & & & & & && & & & & & && & & & & & && where, x& : Time-derivate of x 1

m : Unsuspended mass of front wheels

2

m : Unsuspended mass of rear wheels

3

m : Vehicle body mass

1

l : Distance center-of-mass – front axle

2

l : Distance center-of-mass – rear axle L :

(

l1+l2

)

, i.e. distance between axles

g

R : Radius of gyration

in

k : Stiffness for subsystem n

in

c : Damping constant for subsystem . n

For convenience, each subsystem may be defined by its resonance frequency ω and relative n damping ζ , n 2 1 2 2 2 2 1 2 3 2 1 1 2 2 2 2 3 1 ~ ; ~ ~ ; ~ ~ 2 ~ i i i g i g n n n n n n n m m L l R m m m m L l R m m m k c m k ω ω ζ ω = = ⎟ ⎟ ⎠ ⎞ ⎜ ⎜ ⎝ ⎛ + = = ⎟ ⎟ ⎠ ⎞ ⎜ ⎜ ⎝ ⎛ + = = = where, 1

ω

: Rear vehicle body fixed.

Frequency of vibration around front axis.

1

ω

: Front vehicle body fixed.

Frequency of vibration around rear axis.

Figure 15 Vibration model of vehicle.

Now, define the mass matrix,

(

)

⎥⎥ ⎥ ⎥ ⎥ ⎦ ⎤ ⎢ ⎢ ⎢ ⎢ ⎢ ⎣ ⎡ = L R m m m m M g / 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2 3 3 2 1 ,

stiffness constant matrix,

( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( )

(

)

⎥⎥ ⎥ ⎥ ⎦ ⎤ ⎢ ⎢ ⎢ ⎢ ⎣ ⎡ − − − − − − − + − − + − + − = L l k l k l k l k l k l k L l k l k k k k k L l k k k k L l k k k k K i i 2 2 2 2 1 1 2 2 1 1 2 2 1 1 2 2 1 1 2 1 2 1 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 0 0

damping constant matrix,

( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( )

(

)

⎥⎥ ⎥ ⎥ ⎦ ⎤ ⎢ ⎢ ⎢ ⎢ ⎣ ⎡ − − − − − − − + − − + − + − = L l c l c l c l c l c l c L l c l c c c c c L l c c c c L l c c c c C i i 2 2 2 2 1 1 2 2 1 1 2 2 1 1 2 2 1 1 2 1 2 1 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 0 0

force matrix and vector of variables,

(

)

(

)

⎥ ⎥ ⎥ ⎥ ⎦ ⎤ ⎢ ⎢ ⎢ ⎢ ⎣ ⎡ ∂ + ∂ + = 0 0 2 2 2 1 1 1 i t i i i t i i x c k x c k F , . ⎥ ⎥ ⎥ ⎥ ⎦ ⎤ ⎢ ⎢ ⎢ ⎢ ⎣ ⎡ = 4 3 2 1 x x x x X

The above equations can then be converted to matrix form as,

MX&&=KX+CX&+F (1) Finding the solution is facilitated by a transformation of Eq. (1) to a state-space formulation with twice as many equations, but limited to first order time derivatives. A symmetric choice of state variables is,

(

)

T

y y

y

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4 4 , 3 , 2 , 1 , = = ≡ ≡ + d k x y x y k d k k k & . (2)

The equations of motion then take the simple form , ⎟⎟ ⎠ ⎞ ⎜⎜ ⎝ ⎛ + ⎟⎟ ⎠ ⎞ ⎜⎜ ⎝ ⎛ = ⎟⎟ ⎠ ⎞ ⎜⎜ ⎝ ⎛ F y C K y M x1 4 0 1 0 0 0 1 & , (3) Taking the Laplace transform of Eq. (3) and solving for the states Y,

( )

( ) ( )

( )

[

]

( )21 2 8 2 2 2 2 1 1 2 2 2 2 1 8 1 1 4 1 1 4 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 x i x x i i i i x x x x x s X sc k sc k F M F M C M K M s s Y ⎥ ⎥ ⎥ ⎥ ⎥ ⎦ ⎤ ⎢ ⎢ ⎢ ⎢ ⎢ ⎣ ⎡ + + = ⎥ ⎦ ⎤ ⎢ ⎣ ⎡ ⎥ ⎦ ⎤ ⎢ ⎣ ⎡ ⎥ ⎥ ⎦ ⎤ ⎢ ⎢ ⎣ ⎡ ⎟⎟ ⎠ ⎞ ⎜⎜ ⎝ ⎛ − ⎟⎟ ⎠ ⎞ ⎜⎜ ⎝ ⎛ = − − − − −

These equations can be written as,

[ ]

Y

( )

s =

[

H

( )

s

]

[

Xi

( )

s

]

(4) where,

[

]

( ) ( ) ⎜ ⎜ ⎜ ⎜ ⎜ ⎜ ⎜ ⎜ ⎜ ⎜ ⎝ ⎛ ⎥ ⎥ ⎥ ⎥ ⎥ ⎥ ⎦ ⎤ ⎢ ⎢ ⎢ ⎢ ⎢ ⎢ ⎣ ⎡ + + × ⎟ ⎟ ⎠ ⎞ ⎜ ⎜ ⎝ ⎛ ⎥ ⎦ ⎤ ⎢ ⎣ ⎡ − ⎥ ⎦ ⎤ ⎢ ⎣ ⎡ = − − − 2 8 ) 2 2 ( 2 2 1 1 ) 2 2 ( ) 2 2 ( 1 8 8 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ) ( x x i i i i x x x sc k sc k C M K M I I I s s H

Here, is a (8 x 2) transfer function matrix. Row 3 and 4 correspond to coordinate

( )

s H

3

y and y4

which relates to x3 and x4 respectively.

4.2 Time domain propagators – digital

filtering

Digital filtering is often a much more convenient alternative than the analysis of vehicle in frequency domain.

To synthesize the vehicle filters the often preferred mapping technique [6] will be applied. First, the transfer function in Eq. 4 is written in terms of zeros

( )

~zk and poles

( )

pk

~ in the

continuous time Laplace s-plane,

( )

(

) (

(

1 0 1 ~ 1 ~ −

− − =H s zk s pk s H

))

. These

parameters are then transformed to the discrete time z-plane with a simple exponential conformal mapping. The discrete time poles

( )

pk and zeros

( )

zk are then found as [7],

(

k S

)

k k k

k q f q z p

q =exp~ , = , (5) For the double axes vehicle model,

6 Zeros of number 8 Poles of number 250 = = ≈ Hz fs

For synthesis, the numbers of zeros is greater than the number of poles so to limit the noise level a digital low-pass filter is used. In MATLAB [4] it can be found using the function “butter”.

( )

(

(

)

)

(

(

)

)

, 1 1 8 0 6 0 8 1 6 1 0

= = = = = − − − − ⋅ = k k k k k k k k k k k k Analysis z a z b p z p z z z H z G (6)

( )

+ = + = = n k k k n k k k Synthesis z a z b z G 6 0 8 0 ' ' (7)

The analysis (synthesis) filter input and output coefficients are

{ }

bk

( )

{ }

ak and

{ }

a'k

(

{ }

b'k

)

, respectively.

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Solution Procedure

5.1 Analysis

Coordinates xi1 and xi2 are the input and R-Value

[3] is the output.

1. Find the coordinates x3 (translation of the

center of mass of the vehicle body) and

L

x4 =θ (angular displacement

( )

θ of the

vehicle about center of the mass multiplied with a constant length

( )

L ) using the filter input and output coefficients [section (4.1) and (4.1)].

2. Using the position vector, P=

[

1

(

l4 L

)

]

,

find the displacement of the vehicle body (X’s) at seat position.

3. Do the analysis of seat with (X’s) as input and displacement of the person (Xp) as output [section (4.1) and (4.1)].

4. Take twice time-derivative of Xp to get the acceleration.

5. Find R-Value.

5.2 Synthesis

The acceleration of the vehicle body at the seat position ie x&&s,

(

)

(

)

[

(

)

]

⎥ ⎦ ⎤ ⎢ ⎣ ⎡ ≡ ⎥ ⎦ ⎤ ⎢ ⎣ ⎡ = + = 4 3 4 3 4 4 4 3 1 P* x x x x L l x L l x xs && && && && && && , (8)

is the input and the road hump profile

( )

xi1 is the

output.

1. Take twice integration of x&&s to get xs. 2. Find the filter input and output

coefficients,

{ }

a'k

(

{ }

b'k

)

[section (4.1) and (4.2)] using Eq. (4), Eq. (8) and

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[ ]

( )21

( )

1 * 1 1 i i s x i X T X e X ⎟≡ ⎠ ⎞ ⎜ ⎜ ⎝ ⎛ ⎥ ⎦ ⎤ ⎢ ⎣ ⎡ = τ . (9) Overall, Xi (P*H*T)( )*Xs 1 1 − ≡ , (10) 3. Find xi1.

For optimizing the solution an harmonic acceleration signal (assumed to be ideal) is used.

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Conclusion

A toolbox has been developed for determining the human body response to road humps used for speed limitation of traffic. The program has two modes of operation, ‘Analysis’ and Synthesis’ for analyzing existing and synthesizing new optimal humps, respectively.

Using the toolbox it is found that a bus driver more likely obtains a spinal cord injury than a car driver. The threshold for substantial risk is about 60yrs for a typical bus running over the common ‘concrete pillow’ (shown in inset in cover page) at the speed limit, while for a car driver the corresponding age is around 75yrs. By minor modifications of the shape of the hump, the critical age can be increased.

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References

[1] ITE Technical Council Task Force on Speed Humps, “Guidelines for the Design and Application of Speed Humps”, Washington, D.C., USA: ITE Institute of Transportation Engineers, 1993, pp. 11-15.

[2] Granlund J., Brandt A., “Bus Drivers’ Exposure To Mechanical Shocks Due To Speed Bumps”, 26th International Modal Analysis Conference (IMAC XXVI), Orlando, Florida, USA, Feb. 2008.

[3] ISO 2631-5: 2004 Evaluation of the Human Exposure to Whole-Body Vibration (Geneva: International Standard Organization).

[4] The Math Works, Inc. MATLAB®, Signal

processing toolbox ver. 6.2.1.

[5] Hessling J P 2008 Dynamic calibration of uni-axial material testing machines Mech. Sys. Sign. Proc., 22 No. 2 451-66

[6] Chen Chi-Tsong 2001 Digital Signal Processing (New York: Oxford University Press)

[7] Hessling J P 2008 A novel method of dynamic correction in the time domain Meas. Sci. Technol.,

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