Affiliations: Department of Construction Management and Industrial Engineering, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, USA
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Address for correspondence: Fereydoun Aghazadeh, 3128 CEBA Bldg., Department of Construction Management and Industrial Engineering, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA. Tel.: +1 225 578 5367; E-mail: aghazadeh@lsu.edu
Abstract: This study was conducted to investigate the effect of wearing a VKK-6M pressure suit on functional reach limitations. Participants' reach data were collected with and without-suit and analyzed to see the effect of pressure suit on reach. The study concludes that wearing pressure suit reduces the average reach significantly by 3.57 cm. The 5th percentile Asian and American reach envelopes are derived for placement of critical cockpit controls. Population-reach study shows a significant difference in shoulder breadth of Americans and Asians, but no apparent relationship between bideltoid breadth and thumb tip reach is found.
Keywords: Maximum reach envelope, workplace design, engineering anthropometry, pressure suit
