mapj1:
Not as well documented that it isn't, unless you are considering shocks of 70-80 year duration, when I agree most will have died, but not specifically from electrocution.
If you restrain yourself to considering external shocks, those applied through the skin, and ignore shocks during surgery and from deeply penetrating electrodes, as not being typical of domestic shocks, the following curves apply to humans and low frequency AC. The kink between half a second and perhaps 0.2 of a second relates to the period of a human heart beat. Shocks that are of short duration c.f. a heartbeat are can be higher magnitude without effect than those that span a heartbeat or more. although this refers to IEC 60479, that in turn is based on the works of Dalziel and others in the 20th century.
The 'Supply Voltage' is missing from the graph above!
mapj1:
Not as well documented that it isn't, unless you are considering shocks of 70-80 year duration, when I agree most will have died, but not specifically from electrocution.
If you restrain yourself to considering external shocks, those applied through the skin, and ignore shocks during surgery and from deeply penetrating electrodes, as not being typical of domestic shocks, the following curves apply to humans and low frequency AC. The kink between half a second and perhaps 0.2 of a second relates to the period of a human heart beat. Shocks that are of short duration c.f. a heartbeat are can be higher magnitude without effect than those that span a heartbeat or more. although this refers to IEC 60479, that in turn is based on the works of Dalziel and others in the 20th century.
The 'Supply Voltage' is missing from the graph above!
