Measuring and modeling of human soft tissue and seat interaction

SAE Technical Papers

Volumn , Issue , 1997, Pages

  Setyabudhy, Richard H ^a   Ali, Akram ^a   Hubbard, Robert P ^a   Beckett, Clifford ^a   Averill, Ronald C ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT SEATS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; DEFORMATION; STRAIN; TISSUE;

CONTACT MODELING; FLAT SURFACES; FOAM DENSITIES; FOAM THICKNESS; HUMAN INTERACTIONS; INTERFACE CONTOURS; PLANE STRAINS; RIGID SURFACES;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 85072468954     PISSN: 01487191     EISSN: 26883627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4271/970593     Document Type: Conference Paper

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