Publications

Recent Publications

 

Jack, R. and Oliver, M.  A review of factors influencing whole-body vibration injuries in forestry mobile machine operators. Accepted March 07 for publication in the International Journal of Forest Engineering.

 

Oliver, M., Tingley, M., Rogers, R., Rickards, J., and Biden, E. Effect of joystick stiffness, movement speed and movement direction on joystick and upper limb kinematics when using hydraulic-actuation joystick controls in heavy vehicles. In Press, Ergonomics.

 

Dickey, J.P., Oliver, M.L., Boileau, P.E., Eger, T. and Trick, L.M. Multi-axis sinusoidal whole-body vibrations: Part I - How long should the vibration and rest exposures be for reliable discomfort measures? Journal of Low Frequency Noise, Vibration and Active Control, 25(3), 175-184, 2006.

 

Oliver, M., Rogers, R., Rickards, J., and Biden, E.  Effect of stiffness and movement speed on selected dynamic torque characteristics of hydraulic-actuation joystick controls for heavy vehicles. Ergonomics, 49(3), 249-268, 2006.

 

Northey, G., Oliver, M. and Rittenhouse M. Calibration of a Hall Effect joystick position measurement system using a neural network.  Journal of Biomechanics, 39:1943-1947, 2006.

 

Oliver, M., Jack, R, and Murphy, T. Interdisciplinary motion capture: applications include muscle activation and vibration studies.  Invited Paper to The Standard - VICON Motion Systems, 1:1-4, 2005.

 

Rogers, R.J., Garland, P., and Oliver, M. Dynamic modeling of mechanical systems with opposing preloaded stiffnesses.  Journal of Sound and Vibration 274(1-2):73-89, 2004