Human Engineering and Safety in Farm Machinery Operations detailed syllabus for Agriculture Engineering (Agri) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the Agri students. For course code, course name, number of credits for a course and other scheme related information, do visit full semester subjects post given below.
For Agriculture Engineering 5th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit Agri 5th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. For Professional Elective-II scheme and its subjects refer to Agri Professional Elective-II syllabus scheme. The detailed syllabus of human engineering and safety in farm machinery operations is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Unit I
ERGONOMICS Ergonomics- introduction- Role of ergonomics in Agriculture – Human metabolism- energy liberation in human body- Types of human metabolism- energy requirements at work – acceptable work load.
Unit II
PHYSIOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS Human Skeletal system – muscle, structure and function – Physiological stress – Efficiency of work -Physical functions – Age and individual differences in physical functions- Physiological and operational criteria of physical activity.
Unit III
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Unit IV
ANTHROPOMETRY Anthropometry – introduction- Types of data- Principles of applied anthrophometry – concept of percentile – Normal distribution – Estimating the range – Minimum and Maximum dimensions-Cost benefit analysis – applications of anthropometric data. Anthropometric consideration in tool / equipment design.
Unit V
HUMAN SAFETY Dangerous machine (Regulation) act, Rehabilitation and compensation to accident victims, Safety gadgets for spraying, threshing, Chaff cutting and tractor & trailer operation etc.
Text Books:
- Ernest and Mc Cormick, E.L. (1970). Human factors in engineering and design. Mc Graw Hill Co., New York.
- Grandjean, E. (1988). Fitting the task to the man. Taylor and Francis, London.
- Liljedhal, J.B, Carleton, W.M, Smith, P.K and David, M. (1978). Tractors and power units. John Wiley and sons, New York.
- Murrel, K.H.F. (1978). Ergonomics, Man in his working environment. Chapman and Hall, London.
Reference Books:
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Course Outcomes:
- Understand the importance of human factors and their application in system development.
- Know the effect of visual, auditory and factual displays in human performance.
- Understand the importance of optimum work-rest cycles in endurance.
- Be able to ideally design the work space in accordance to anthropometry.
- Have the general understanding safety features and regulation acts in farm machinery.
For detailed syllabus of all the other subjects of Agriculture Engineering 5th Sem, visit Agri 5th Sem subject syllabuses for 2021 regulation.
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