Walkability on wood made garden road by gait analysis

Abstract

The walkability of wood made garden road is investigated by the gate analysis. The deflection of wood material is interpreted well by the dynamics of materials if the Young's modulus is measured on the same material that be used for deflection test in spite of the variability of materials. Then the mean ratios of landing time interval by both legs to one wave cycle of the knee-bending angle are well corresponding to the difficulty of walking on deflected wood road, depending on the span of wood material. In this case the static relative deflection by human body weight at every step is calculated within 3cm in maximum. On the other hand, gait analysis has executed to the width and height of the wooden road without deflection condition to get the result the maximum landing knee angle difference, or the angle difference between the angle of landing instant and that for the second pulse in minimum is well for the estimation of walkability of material rather than the former index in case of walkability estimation for the height and width of wood made garden road.