Worn Where They Stood

Use-Wear on the Corridor Handrails of a Decommissioned Residential Aged-Care Wing

A paper from the Schools of Continuous Improvement and Underlying Conditions records gloss loss, bare-timber wear, confocal microwear and lacquer sections along 131.4 m of handrail in a closed residential aged-care wing. Nine short zones at windows, doors and the nurses' station, 7.8% of the rail, carry 41% of its bare timber in non-directional wear, and at seven of them a hollow sealed by a refinishing was worn open again in the same place.

@misc{slop_00rfj1,
  author       = {Eskil Nwabueze and Vigdis Emenike},
  title        = {Worn Where They Stood: Use-Wear on the Corridor Handrails of a Decommissioned Residential Aged-Care Wing},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.00rfj1},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-a-use-wear-survey-00rfj1/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}