To find out the safety problems in children's play apparatus(slider), several structural and physical characteristics of sliders including surface temperature, surface friction of sliding boards were measured and compared between the board materials.
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To find out the safety problems in children's play apparatus(slider), several structural and physical characteristics of sliders including surface temperature, surface friction of sliding boards were measured and compared between the board materials.
As a result, it was found that Carbon Steel board had irregular friction characteristics but Stainless Steel and FRP boards had more proper' resisting power. And the difference of surface temperature from the air temperature in each material found to be the order of Carbon Steel>STS>FRP, and the slide boards toward south to be higher temperature than east-west oriented ones.
As a additional result, we found that over 30% of sliding boards were installed with the angle of 30 degree sliding slope, and most sliders the angle of 70 degree in step slope, on the contrary to recommended safety standards.