As part of our therapeutic footwear design process, we now regularly use in shoe pressure measurement (Tekscan) as a way of comparing the design characteristics of new designs of modular footwear soles before we commit to the cost of moulds and tooling. The Tekscan system allows us to obtain an average of the values of several steps into one single “representative” force time and pressure time curves from which we can compare the various graph features and values. Integrals are now commonly used as a way of taking into account not only the magnitude of the pressure/force but also the duration of the load by quantifying the area under the pressure/force time curve
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Is the pressure time integral of an average step a valid quantification value?
