Measuring and modeling support forces of people to assist in the development of the ASPECT manikin weighting

SAE Technical Papers

Volumn , Issue , 1999, Pages

  Bush, Tamara Reid ^a   Gregg, Sarah J ^a   Hubbard, Robert P ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOTIVE ENGINEERING;

COMPUTER MODELING; H-POINT; HUMAN LIKE; SEATING DEVICES; SUPPORT FORCES; WEIGHT DISTRIBUTIONS;

SOFTWARE TESTING;

EID: 85072432436     PISSN: 01487191     EISSN: 26883627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4271/1999-01-0961     Document Type: Conference Paper

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