Develop Best Practices for Correlating Body Pressure Distribution Test to Simulation

As automotive seating comfort is expected to see an upward trend, virtual comfort analysis is expected to pick up its importance and Body Pressure Distribution (BPD) is foreseen to be the flag bearer in this race towards seat comfort. The shift of focus from BPD testing to virtual comfort analysis has been a positive sign for market. This paper will discuss in detail several different human seating postures during BPD measurement and their influence on seat BPD with the help of virtual comfort analysis tool. This knowledge will be helpful to put more emphasis on several key aspects for capturing BPD maps during real BPD testing (This paper does not discuss any physical testing). When the real-time-tested BPD map would be produced repeatedly with less variation with the analytical BPD map, a comfortable seat design would be achieved in a shorter period in terms of production with greater accuracy