Design and Parameterized Virtual Simulation Test of a Kind of Seat Bench for Ergonomic Test

Abstract:

How seats can provide the best sitting posture is still a challenging subject in ergonomics. The researches on seats and sitting postures often need to measure physiological data or to record human’s subjective experience under a certain sitting posture. So to build a kind of multi-posture sitting bench has an important significance. The paper proposes a simple, reliable and less costly universal seat bench, whose size and shapes can be quantitatively, continuously and parameterized adjusted and which also can be adjusted to a variety of seat back curves by simulating spinal modeling. Based on Pro/ E software, two kinds of parameterized virtual simulation models are built, which can simulate deformation effects of the ergonomic seat bench easily and verify the correctness of data used to change the shape of bench.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 215-216)
• Pages: 388-394
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.215-216.388
• Online since: November 2012
• Authors: Sha Liu, Yun Qi Wang, Wen Jun Wei, Lei Wei, Tian Xu Che
• Keywords: Ergonomics, Parameterized Design, Seat, Sitting Posture

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