Seat-cushion and soft-tissue material modeling and a finite element investigation of the seating comfort for passenger-vehicle occupants

Materials and Design

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 4273-4285

  Grujicic, M ^a   Pandurangan, B ^a   Arakere, G ^a   Bell, W C ^a   He, T ^a   Xie, X ^a  

^a CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Car seat design; Comfort; Finite element modeling; Material modeling; Seating

Indexed keywords

CAR SEAT DESIGN; COMFORT; FINITE ELEMENT MODELING; MATERIAL MODELING; SEATING;

AUTOMOTIVE ENGINEERING; COMPETITION; COMPUTER AIDED ENGINEERING; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 67649518051     PISSN: 02641275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.matdes.2009.04.028     Document Type: Article

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