A combined suspension seat-vehicle driver model for estimating the exposure to whole-body vehicular vibration and shock

Heavy Vehicle Systems

Volumn 4, Issue 2-4, 1997, Pages 244-265

  Boileau, P E ^a   Rakheja, S ^b   Liu, P J ^b  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE ROBERT SAUVÉ EN SANTÉ ET EN SÉCURITÉ DU TRAVAIL   (Canada)

^b Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biodynamic model; Frequency weighted acceleration; Model validation; Shock response; Travel limiting bump stop interactions

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOBILE DRIVER SIMULATORS; AUTOMOBILE SEATS; BIOMECHANICS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; MACHINE VIBRATIONS; MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; TRUCK DRIVERS;

COMBINED SUSPENSION SEAT VEHICLE DRIVER MODEL; FREQUENCY WEIGHTED ACCELERATION; SHOCK RESPONSE; TRAVEL LIMITING BUMP STOP INTERACTIONS;

AUTOMOTIVE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0031343595     PISSN: 13517848     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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