Date of Award
6-1961
Document Type
Thesis - Restricted
Degree Name
Master of Science (MS)
Department
Medical
First Advisor
Lyle H. Hamilton
Second Advisor
William J. Stekiel
Abstract
In recent years, the physiological responses of humans and animals to mechanical vibration have become of interest to military personnel and to persons in the transportation industries. The physiological and pathological effects of exposure to vibration have been studied rather unsystematically and reports of such studies have appeared, for the most part, in journals and limited circulation or in relatively inaccessible technical reports. Several laboratories are currently working to clarify the physiological effects of vibration in the subsonic and low sonic frequency range (up to several hundred cycles per second). Subsonic frequencies were chosen for this study of respiratory responses to vibration since preliminary observations of psychomotor and cardiovascular effects had previously indicated that such frequencies produced physiological responses.
The problem, in essence, was to determine:
1. the changes in pulmonary ventilation which resulted from low-subsonic, whole-body vibration,
2. the roles played by frequency and by accelerative forces in producing these changes.
Recommended Citation
Duffner, Lee R., "The Effect of Low-frequency, High-amplitude Vertical Vibration on Respiration in Human Subjects" (1961). Master's Theses (1922-2009) Access restricted to Marquette Campus. 5695.
https://epublications.marquette.edu/theses/5695