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Push/pull is very common and frequent activity for astronauts in the space operation. For the sake of researching on the strength change of astronauts’ upper limbs during different operation postures, this paper major on performed the simulation aviation operation experiment. The paper quantitatively evaluates the absolute peak force, relative peak force of human single left/right hand and strain energy of grip made by operating force in comfortable, horizontal widest, and longitudinal widest span. The result here demonstrates that absolute peak force, relative peak force, strain energy are effective factors to estimate upper limbs strength, and the individual upper limbs power is significantly effected by different postures.
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Li, D., Zhao, Y. (2011). Ergonomics Evaluation of Three Operation Postures for Astronauts. In: Duffy, V.G. (eds) Digital Human Modeling. ICDHM 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6777. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21799-9_14
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