A GEOMETRICAL MODEL FOR THE REPRESENTATION OF SEAT-BELT FITTING PROBLEMS

The planar development method of representing seat-belt fit was proposed in an earlier paper, which applied it to a geometrical representation of the shoulder area. The present paper extends this method by giving a geometrical representation of the lap area, and by extending the geodesic principle to cope with complex belt installations in which the webbing does not run simply from anchorage to anchorage. With the earlier paper, the present work enables problems of seat belt fit to be studied by a computer model. The paper also discusses the modelling of a multi-dimensional population, with consequent improvement over the use of the percentile concept, widely used in anthropometry, to describe such a population. (Author/TRRL)

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• Authors:
  • Searle, J A
  • Hardy, R N
  • Haslegrave, C M
• Publication Date: 1980-4

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: p. 305-317
• Serial:
  • Ergonomics
  • Volume: 23
  • Issue Number: 4
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
  • ISSN: 0014-0139
  • EISSN: 1366-5847
  • Serial URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/terg20

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Abdomen; Anchorages; Economic efficiency; Fittings; Geometry; Hip; Manual safety belts; Mathematical models; Shape; Shoulder; Shoulder harnesses; Weight
• Uncontrolled Terms: Efficiency; Geometry (Shape)
• Old TRIS Terms: Shoulder harness
• ITRD Terms: 2035: Abdomen; 3420: Anchorage; 5911: Efficiency; 2003: Hip (human); 6473: Mathematical model; 1476: Safety belt; 9073: Shape; 2014: Shoulder (human); 5485: Weight
• Subject Areas: Economics; Highways; Vehicles and Equipment; I91: Vehicle Design and Safety;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00330486
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• Report/Paper Numbers: HS-030 491
• Files: HSL, ITRD, TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 15 1984 12:00AM