LOGISTICS WORK, ERGONOMICS AND SOCIAL SUSTAINABILITY: EMPIRICAL MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM STRAIN ASSESSMENT IN RETAIL INTRALOGISTICS

Logistics Work, Ergonomics and Social Sustainability: Empirical Musculoskeletal System Strain Assessment in Retail Intralogistics

Background: A large proportion of logistics jobs still rely on manual labor and therefore place a physical strain on employees.This includes the handling of heavy goods and physiologically unfavorable postures.Such issues pose a risk for employee health and work capability.This article provides a detailed empirical analysis and a decision process s

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Effect of tool transverse speed and pin offset on the properties of friction stir welding Al6061-St52 dissimilar joint

The present study aimed to create an Al6061-St52 dissimilar joint and investigate the effect of the transverse speed and the pin offset by the friction stir welding (FSW) process.Aluminum to steel dissimilar welding is difficult by fusion methods because of the formation of brittle intermetallic compounds (IMCs).Therefore, FSW parameters were deter

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Optimal design of needlepunched nonwoven fiber reinforced epoxy composites using improved preference selection index approach

Viscose and polypropylene fiber-based needlepunched nonwoven fabric mat reinforced epoxy composites with varying mass per unit area (200, 400 and 600 g/m2) and varying fabric mat weight percentage (20, 30, and 40 wt.%) were fabricated.The manufactured composites were characterized for physical (density, void content), mechanical (impact energy, fle

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A novel three-stage multi-population evolutionary algorithm for constrained multi-objective optimization problems

Abstract Lots of real-world optimization problems are inherently constrained multi-objective optimization problems (CMOPs), but the existing constrained multi-objective optimization evolutionary algorithms (CMOEAs) often fail to balance convergence and diversity effectively.Therefore, a novel constrained multi-objective optimization evolutionary al

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