ISO 24415-2:2011
(Main)Tips for assistive products for walking — Requirements and test methods — Part 2: Durability of tips for crutches
Tips for assistive products for walking — Requirements and test methods — Part 2: Durability of tips for crutches
ISO 24415-2:2011 specifies requirements and test methods for the durability of tips for crutches. ISO 24415-2:2011 is not applicable to tips manufactured for special purposes e.g. walking on ice and snow. The requirements and test method are based on tips being used with an ordinary gait on dry and flat walking surfaces.
Embouts pour produits d'assistance à la marche — Exigences et méthodes d'essai — Partie 2: Durabilité des embouts de béquilles
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INTERNATIONAL ISO
STANDARD 24415-2
First edition
2011-08-15
Tips for assistive products for walking —
Requirements and test methods —
Part 2:
Durability of tips for crutches
Embouts pour produits d’assistance à la marche — Exigences et
méthodes d’essai —
Partie 2: Durabilité des embouts de béquilles
Reference number
ISO 24415-2:2011(E)
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ISO 24415-2:2011(E)
Foreword
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ISO 24415-2 was prepared by Technical Committee ISO/TC 173, Assistive products for persons with disability.
ISO 24415 consists of the following parts, under the general title Tips for assistive products for walking —
Requirements and test methods:
— Part 1: Friction of tips
— Part 2: Durability of tips for crutches
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ISO 24415-2:2011(E)
Introduction
The characteristics of tips attached to the bottom of assistive products for walking are essential to ensuring
user safety. The tips are continuously and repeatedly subjected to load and friction while walking; durability
against this repeated load is important both for safety and for cost effectiveness.
Tips are used on many different assistive products for walking, including canes, walking sticks, crutches,
walking frames, rollators, and walking tables. They are produced in many different sizes and are made of many
different materials, depending on the sort of assistive products for walking to which they are applied. A variety
of bottom shapes are available on the market for the many kinds of assistive products for walking.
Generally, durability of rubber is estimated based on a wearing resistance test using test pieces rather than
finished goods. However, tips for assistive products for walking are used in several different ways, therefore it
is favourable to perform the test on manufactured tips (not manufactured test pieces) to obtain realistic data.
For example, tips for crutches can endure less abrasion, because the load on tips for crutches is higher than
that on tips for other assistive products for walking.
This part of ISO 24415 specifies requirements and test methods for durability of tips for crutches to enable developers,
manufacturers, distributors, and health care providers to determine whether tips have the necessary durability.
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INTERNATIONAL STANDARD ISO 24415-2:2011(E)
Tips for assistive products for walking — Requirements and
test methods —
Part 2:
Durability of tips for crutches
1 Scope
This part of ISO 24415 specifies requirements and test methods for the durability of tips for crutches, and is
not applicable to tips manufactured for special purposes. The requirements and test method are based on tips
being used with an ordinary gait on dry and flat walking surfaces.
Crutches include elbow crutches, forearm support crutches, and axillary crutches, as described in ISO 9999.
NOTE Special purposes might include walking on ice and/or snow.
2 Normative references
The following referenced documents are indispensable for the application of this document. For dated
references, only the edition cited applies. For undated references, the latest edition of the referenced document
(including any amendments) applies.
ISO 9999, Assistive products for persons with disability — Classification and terminology
EN 13036-4, Road and airfield surface characteristics — Test methods — Part 4: Method for measurement of
slip/skid resistance of a surface — The pendulum test
3 Terms and definitions
For the purposes of this document, the following terms and definitions apply.
3.1
tip
that part of the crutch which is in contact with ground
NOTE See Figure 1.
3.2
test track
surface against which the tip is to be tested
3.3
actuator
mechanism to
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