Tuesday Tip: What is fall factor and how to calculate it? Part 3 – fall factor = 2

by | 10/03/2015

In this situation, where the fall displacement is twice the size of the lanyard (2.60 m), the impact force generated in the energy absorber makes it open approximately
1.10 m so that this energy is dissipated and the human body suffers the least possible impact.

“The free-fall distance is always informed in the energy absorber, after an analysis made with the worst condition 100 kg and fall factor 2”.

Fall factor = 1 – fall corresponding to the total lanyard size

Test mass = 100 kg

Lanyard length = 1,30 m