VIBRATION RIDE COMFORT CRITERIA

Results from a test program at Langley Research Center to develop an empirical model for predicting passenger comfort responses to multiaxis vibrations are restricted to a description and understanding of human response to complex vertical axis vibrations. The approach to multifrequency vibration includes a separate consideration of the discomfort associated with each frequency component or band of the total spectrum, and a subsequent empirical weighting of the discomfort components of these frequency bands when in various random combinations.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Presented at the Congress of the International Ergonomics Associations, 6th, and Technical Program of the Annual Meeting of the Human Factors Society, 20th, University of Maryland, College Park, July 11-16, 1976.
• Corporate Authors:

  Human Factors Society

  1134 Montana
  Santa Monica, CA  United States  90403
• Authors:
  • Dempsey, T K
  • Leatherwood, J D
• Publication Date: 1976

Media Info

• Features: References;
• Pagination: p. 260-266
• Serial:
  • Publication of: Human Factors Society
  • Publisher: Human Factors Society

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Forecasting; Human factors; Mathematical models; Passenger comfort; Ride quality; Vibration
• Uncontrolled Terms: Criteria; Models
• Old TRIS Terms: Hold up
• Subject Areas: Highways; Railroads; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00156352
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Engineering Index
• Report/Paper Numbers: Proceeding
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 31 1977 12:00AM