Design and Analysis of Wheelchair by Ethnographic and Ergonomics Considerations

Autores

  • Chandrakant Kulkarni Department of Mechanical Engineering, NIMS University, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
  • Abhijit Dandavate Department of Mechanical Engineering, Dhole Patil College of Engineering, Pune, Maharashtra, India
  • Maheshwar M.C. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Dhole Patil College of Engineering, Pune, Maharashtra, India

Palavras-chave:

Design, ethnography, ergonomics, wheelchair

Resumo

Relatively there are considerable numbers of people who are unable to walk freely due to oneor the other problems in their legs. There are numerous types of wheelchairs available in the market; however there are various difficulties for the patients in using the manual wheelchair. Hence, there is a scope to understand the patients’ requirements and design the wheelchair as per the patients’ needs by the ethnographic and ergonomics research. Option would be to improve the function of wheelchairs with the help of ethnographic research by the inputs given by various patients, users, attendants and doctors in problems identifications and solving problems of wheelchairs. The main objective is to design the wheel chair based on ergonomic consideration which gives comfort to the user and to carry out the analysis for the wheel chair for different materials and obtain the efficient material with minimum weight. Cite this ArticleChandrakant Kulkarni, AbhijitDandavate, Maheshwar MC. Designand Analysis of Wheelchair byEthnographic and ErgonomicsConsiderations. Trends in MechanicalEngineering & Technology. 2017; 7(1):33–39p.

Biografias do Autor

  • Chandrakant Kulkarni, Department of Mechanical Engineering, NIMS University, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
    Research scholar, Department of Mechanical Engineering, NIMS University, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
  • Abhijit Dandavate, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Dhole Patil College of Engineering, Pune, Maharashtra, India
    PRINCIPAL, DHOLE PATIL COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, PUNE
  • Maheshwar M.C., Department of Mechanical Engineering, Dhole Patil College of Engineering, Pune, Maharashtra, India
    ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, Department of Mechanical Engineering, DHOLE PATIL COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, PUNE

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2017-03-17

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Vol. 7 N.º 1 (2017)

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