Aspects of seat modelling for seating comfort analysis

Applied Ergonomics

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 33-42

  Verver, M M ^a   De Lange, R ^a   Van Hoof, J ^a   Wismans, J S H M ^a,b  

^a TNO   (Netherlands)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Multi body; Seat experiments; Seat modelling

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; SAFETY FACTOR;

MULTI-BODY; SEAT EXPERIMENTS; SEAT MODELLING;

AUTOMOBILE SEATS;

ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; KINEMATICS; MAN MACHINE INTERACTION; PHYSICAL MODEL; SEAT; SIMULATION; SURFACE PROPERTY; BIOENGINEERING; BODY POSTURE; CAR; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; REPRODUCIBILITY;

AUTOMOBILES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN ENGINEERING; HUMANS; POSTURE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 19644382237     PISSN: 00036870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apergo.2004.09.002     Document Type: Article

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