[Ergonomical studies about the superposition of control activity and mechanical vibration (author's transl)]

Abstract

The effects of combined stresses due to control activity and vertical mechanical vibration on man are analysed. In the first part, the processes in the human being at those superposed stresses are shown in a deterministic way, starting from morphological and physiological facts, which leads to a division of the organismic data processing in the fields of information reception, central information processing and information output. Hypothesis of the effects of vibration in the parts of information reception and information output as well as indications to measurable variables at laboratory experiments can be deduced from the model formulation. In the experimental part about factorized laboratory experiments with combined stresses consisting of an ideal-typical compensatory-tracking-task and mechanical vibration is reported, which can be divided into short-time experiments with measurement of the statistical control-factor and perseverance experiments with additional measurements of physiological variables. As established in the first part, influences of vibration in the regions of information reception and information output were found as well as thresholds for the performance-reducing effects of mechanical vibrations. The magnitudes of the thresholds are dependent on the task difficulty.