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PREVENTION OF SLIP ACCIDENTS BY USING RUBBER FLOOR MAT

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There is an increasing demand to eliminate slip and fall in bathrooms. Wet ceramic surfaces usually promote slips and occasionally lead to indoor accidents. The present work aims to test the frictional behaviour of rubber mats made of recycled rubber and filled by polyurethane of different hardness to have specific information about their friction coefficient and evaluate their performance  in increasing friction coefficient at dry, water, detergent wetted flooring. The presence of dust contaminating the floorings was tested.
 
It was found that at dry sliding, friction coefficient slightly decreased with increasing the hardness of the rubber mats. As the load increased friction coefficient decreased. Sliding against water as well as detergent wetted rubber mats showed the same trend observed for dry sliding. In the presence of sand particles, friction coefficient significantly decreased with increasing the hardness for lower loads. As the load increased friction coefficient showed slight increase with increasing hardness of the tested mats. At water wetted and sand contaminated rubber mats, the variation of friction coefficient with increasing the hardness of the tested rubber mats was significant. Compared to ceramic and polymeric tiles rubber mats showed the highest friction in all the sliding conditions tested in the present work. Besides, sliding against ceramic tiles showed very low friction values which resemble an increasing incidence of slip and falling. As accident prevention and slip resistance point of view, the values of friction coefficient displayed by the tested mats guarantee safe walking. In addition, wear significantly increased with increasing the hardness of the rubber mats. As the load increased wear increased. Based on the wear results it is recommended to use rubber of relatively lower hardness.

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10.21608/jest.2012.80903

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Prevention of slip accidents, rubber floor mat.EGTRIB Journal JOURNAL OF THE EGYPTIAN SOCIETY OF TRIBOLOGY VOLUME 9, NO. 1, JANUARY 2012, 24 - 38 PREVENTION OF SLIP ACCIDENTS BY USING RUBBER FLOOR MAT El-Sherbiny Y. M.*, Mohamed M. K.** and Ali W. Y, the bulk hysteresis and the contact adhesive term. These two contributions are regarded to be independent of each other, but this is only a simplified assumption, [7]. Friction measurement is one of the major approaches to quantify floor slipperines, rolling and embedment. The action of sand depends on the relative hardness of the two contacting surfaces. When the hardness of the contact surfaces is the same, sand particles tend to roll. If one surface has higher hardness than the other sand part

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Y. M.

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El-Sherbiny

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Dept. of Civil and Architectural Engineering, National Research Center, Dokki, Giza, EGYPT.

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M. K.

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Mohamed

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Faculty of Engineering, Minia University, P. N. 61111, El-Minia, EGYPT,

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W. Y.

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Ali

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Current Address: Faculty of Engineering, Taif University, P. N. 888, Al-Taif, Saudi Arabia., Faculty of Engineering, Minia University, P. N. 61111, El-Minia, EGYPT,

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2012-01-01

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2011-10-07

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2012-01-01

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24

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38

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2090-5882

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2090-5955

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JEST_Volume 9_Issue 1_Pages 24-38.pdf

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Journal of the Egyptian Society of Tribology

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PREVENTION OF SLIP ACCIDENTS BY USING RUBBER FLOOR MAT

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22 Jan 2023