A CONTRIBUTION TO IDENTIFICATION OF A NON-LINEAR BIODYNAMIC OSCILLATORY MODEL OF MAN

In optimizing oscillatory parameters of motor vehicles, there is a need to use biodynamic oscillatory models of the human body. Since all the oscillatory excitations that a person is exposed to in a vehicle, are most often random, and sometimes shock or harmonic, use of many well-known models (described in various reports in the literature) would not give acceptable results in all characteristic cases. Therefore, based on data obtained from tests on input mechanical impedance of man in a passive sitting position, this paper has made an attempt to identify a non-linear biodynamic oscillatory model of man namely, a man is approximated by three concentric masses, mutally connected by non-linear and linear damping elements. (TRRL)

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• Authors:
  • DEMIC, M
• Publication Date: 1989

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: p. 153-164
• Serial:
  • International Journal of Vehicle Design
  • Volume: 10
  • Issue Number: 2
  • Publisher: Inderscience Enterprises Limited
  • ISSN: 1477-5360
  • Serial URL: http://www.inderscience.com/jhome.php?jcode=IJVD

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Anthropometry; Anthropometry; Biophysics; Comfort; Mathematical analysis; Mathematical models; Vehicles; Vibration
• ITRD Terms: 287: Attractiveness (transp); 1272: Bus; 226: Cost benefit analysis; 144: Deregulation; 263: Economics of transport; 9020: Evaluation (assessment); 388: Inter urban; 6473: Mathematical model; 744: Public transport; 328: Rural area; 8122: USA
• Subject Areas: Highways; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00491667
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• Files: ITRD, TRIS, ATRI
• Created Date: Mar 31 1990 12:00AM