Engineering Metrology for Pedestrian Falls Prevention and Protection: Theories to Applications for Designing Safer Shoes and Floors

This book explains how to improve the validity, reliability, and repeatability of slip resistance assessments amongst a range of shoes, floors, and environments from an engineering metrology viewpoint—covering theoretical and experimental aspects of slip resistance mechanics and mechanisms.

Pedestrian falls resulting from slips or falls are one of the foremost causes of fatal and non—fatal injuries that limit people’s functionality. There have been prolonged efforts globally to identify an...