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Car seat and occupant modelling using CAD
conference contribution
posted on 2013-12-11, 14:28 authored by Keith Case, Di-Chen Xiao, J. Mark PorterA current Brite-Euram project is concerned with life-cycle aspects of car seating with Loughborough being responsible for driver comfort assessment. This is being carried out through road and laboratory trials, with the results to be incorporated within the SAMMIE design system. Driver comfort is in part determined by seat pressure distributions which lead to deformation of the human flesh and the seat and movement of important design locations such as the driver's eyepoint. Accommodation of these effects requires a more realistic representation of the human body using surface rather than solid representations. Hence a shadow scanning technique is used to capture human body shape which is processed into the DUCT surface modelling system and via IGES files into SAMMIE. Finite element techniques are then used to predict deformations at the seat/driver interface.
History
School
- Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering
Citation
CASE, K., XIAO, D-C. and PORTER, J.M., 1995. Car seat and occupant modelling using CAD. IN: Stockton, D. and Wainwright, C. (eds.) Advances In Manufacturing Technology IX: Proceedings Of The 11th National Conference On Manufacturing Research, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK, 12-14 September 1995, pp. 149 - 153.Publisher
© Taylor & Francis Ltd.Version
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
Publication date
1995Notes
This is a conference paper.ISBN
0748404007Language
- en