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    Dear Colleagues



    We have a pair of Kistler force platforms flush mounted in the floor of
    our laboratory. The work we are about to undertake requires a more
    compliant surface than our hard laboratory floor and bare platforms;
    consequently we have a strip of athletics track (Mondo) to be rolled out
    across the laboratory.



    A colleague has suggested that this strip could simply be rolled across
    both platforms from one end of the laboratory to the other. I expect
    that this would mean that horizontal forces measured by the platforms
    would be attenuated through shear forces being supported by the track on
    either side. The natural solution to this would be to cut holes for the
    platforms, with pieces of track glued to the platforms and a small gap
    between the track attached to the platforms and that running across the
    laboratory on either side.



    This method poses a difficulty in aligning the track, however. This
    product is very heavy and difficult to manoeuvre to exactly the right
    place. This is an issue for us as we need to lay down and remove the
    track on each day's testing to accommodate other users of the
    laboratory.



    Does anyone have experience with the use of running tracks in a
    laboratory where this track is not permanently in place? Do you have a
    solution that can be easily rolled out and then removed?



    Thank you for your kind advice.





    Peter Sinclair

    Faculty of Health Sciences

    The University of Sydney



    p.sinclair@usyd.edu.au




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