- Author
-
Mahajan, B. M.
|
Beine, W. B.
- Title
- Impact Attenuation Performance of Surfaces Installed Under Playground Equipment.
- Coporate
- National Bureau of Standards, Washington, DC
- Sponsor
- Consumer Product Safety Commission, Washington, DC
- Report
-
NBSIR 79-1707,
February 1979,
- Distribution
- Available from National Technical Information Service
- Keywords
-
playgrounds; surface finishing; accidents; injuries; stress (physiology); head (anatomy); tests; criteria; methodology; tolerances (physiology); experimental data; product safety
- Identifiers
- head injuries
- Abstract
- This report describes a test method and a suggested criterion for evaluating the impact attenuation performance of playground surfacing materials intended to protect against head injury due to falls. Several types of surfacing materials have been tested and the results are included. These results indicate that some surfacing materials impart peak accelerations below this criterion for fall distances up to 10 feet while others exceed the criterion for relatively short fall distances.