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contributor authorAzizi, Yousof
contributor authorPuri, Tarun
contributor authorBajaj, Anil K.
contributor authorDavies, Patricia
date accessioned2017-05-09T01:15:42Z
date available2017-05-09T01:15:42Z
date issued2015
identifier issn1555-1415
identifier othercnd_010_03_031011.pdf
identifier urihttp://yetl.yabesh.ir/yetl/handle/yetl/157291
description abstractThe location of the hipjoint (HPoint) of a seat occupant is an important design specification which directly affects the seat static comfort. Most car seats are made of polyurethane foam and so the location of the HPoint is dependent on the quasistatic behavior of foam. In this research, a previously developed model of the seat–occupant system is refined by incorporating an improved foam model which is used to study seat and occupant interactions and the location of occupant’s HPoint. The seat is represented by a series of discrete nonlinear viscoelastic elements that characterize the seating foam behavior. The nonlinear elastic behavior of these elements is expressed by a higher order polynomial while their viscoelastic behavior is described by a hereditary type model with parameters that are functions of the compression rate. The nonlinear elastic and viscoelastic model parameters were estimated previously using data obtained from a series of quasistatic compression tests on a car seat foam sample. The occupant behavior is described by a constrained twodimensional multibody model with five degrees of freedom. A Lagrangian formulation is used to derive the governing equations for the seat–occupant model. These differential equations are solved numerically to obtain the HPoint location. These results are then used to calculate the force distribution at the seat and occupant interfaces. The force distribution at the seat–occupant interface is also investigated experimentally and is found to match qualitatively with the results obtained using the seat–occupant model.
publisherThe American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
titleDevelopment of a Multibody Model to Predict the Settling Point and Interfacial Pressure Distribution in a Seat–Occupant System
typeJournal Paper
journal volume10
journal issue3
journal titleJournal of Computational and Nonlinear Dynamics
identifier doi10.1115/1.4029047
journal fristpage31011
journal lastpage31011
identifier eissn1555-1423
treeJournal of Computational and Nonlinear Dynamics:;2015:;volume( 010 ):;issue: 003
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