Hi Paul,

There is a lot of work in the area of modeling the lower limbs in running and jumping. Maybe you will find something useful in the following reviews (which provide some normative data values):

Brughelli, M., & Cronin, J. (2008). A review of research on the mechanical stiffness in running and jumping: methodology and implications. Scandinavian journal of medicine & science in sports, 18(4), 417-426.

Serpell, B. G., Ball, N. B., Scarvell, J. M., & Smith, P. N. (2012). A review of models of vertical, leg, and knee stiffness in adults for running, jumping or hopping tasks. Journal of sports sciences, 30(13), 1347-1363.

Matt

Hi Matt,

Thanks for your response. The above publications are both very helpful but I was hoping to find data directly related to walking movements as opposed to simulated jump tests if possible. Essentially, we want to see if the stiffness changes with various types of movement/locomotion.

Paul

Dear Paul Archbold

You may find several papers on the subject at this review, applicable to walking:

Shock and Vibration

Volume 2016, Article ID 3430285, 22 pages

http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/3430285

Erfan Shahabpoor Aleksandar Pavic and Vitomir Racic

Interaction between Walking Humans and Structures in

Vertical Direction: A Literature Review

I did some contributions of my own on this topic. There follows some references:

F. T. Silva and R. L. Pimentel, “Biodynamic walking model

for vibration serviceability of footbridges in vertical direction,”

in Proceeding of the 8th International Conference on Structural

Dynamics (Eurodyn ’11), pp. 1090–1096, Leuven, Belgium, 2011.

M.A.Toso, H.M. Gomes, F. T. Silva, andR.L.Pimentel, “Experimentally

fitted biodynamic models for pedestrian-structure

interaction in walking situations,” Mechanical Systems and

Signal Processing, vol. 72-73, pp. 590–606, 2016.

F. T. Silva, H. M. B. F. Brito, and R. L. Pimentel, “Modeling

of crowd load in vertical direction using biodynamic model

for pedestrians crossing footbridges,” Canadian Journal of Civil

Engineering, vol. 40, no. 12, pp. 1196–1204, 2013.

Hi Roberto. Thanks for your response. I have reviewed many of your suggested publications already and found them very helpful.

Thanks again.

Paul