- Author
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Cramp, A. P.
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Masters, L. W.
- Title
- Preliminary Study of the Slipperiness of Flooring. Final Report.
- Coporate
- National Bureau of Standards, Washington, DC
- Report
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NBSIR 74-613
July 1974
- Distribution
- Available from National Technical Information Service
- Keywords
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floors; residential buildings; home accidents; sliding; tiles; materials tests; accident prevention; materials specifications; reviews; resilience; surface properties; evaluation; recommendations; friction tests
- Identifiers
- slipperiness
- Abstract
- Falls in the home are reported to kill about 12,000 and injure 6,000,000 in the U.S.A. each year. Slippery floors are listed as a large contributor to these figures. Although there are some standardized test methods that are or might be suitable for such standards, at present there are no slipperiness standards for flooring, so there is an immediate need for the development and establishment of such standards. A preliminary study of floor slipperiness included a state-of-the-art investigation on flooring slipperiness research and a laboratory evaluation of three existing test methods for measuring floor slipperiness. Samples of the three most commonly used resilient flooring materials, vinyl asbestos, vinyl, and linoleum were used in the study. The sliding material components were leather and a styrene butadiene sole and heel rubber. The tests were performed both dry and wet. This report contains the results of the preliminary study.