Citation

Reddy PS, Ramakrishna A, Ramji K. Proc. Inst. Mech. Eng. Pt. D J. Automobile Eng. 2015; 229(2): 226-234.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Publisher SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/0954407014537642

PMID

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Abstract

In this paper a 15-degree-of-freedom human-seat vibratory model is developed using anthropomorphic modelling and the model is coupled with a typical seven-degree-of-freedom small passenger car to study the dynamic response of a human driver due to vehicle vibrations. The coupled model is analysed by MATLAB simulation for the ride dynamic behaviour of the human driver under a harmonic input excitation in the frequency range 0-40 Hz. The ride behaviours in terms of the vertical accelerations of different segments of the human driver are compared with respect to the ride comfort using the ISO 2631-1:1997 standard. Further, parametric analysis is carried out to improve the ride comfort of the human driver.

Language: en