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The Relationship Between Seat Pressure and Comfort
Technical Paper
2003-01-2213
ISSN: 0148-7191, e-ISSN: 2688-3627
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With rising customer expectations, driver comfort will become more and more important for car manufacturers in distinguishing themselves from others. This is a challenge, since it is difficult to predict comfort, especially in early design stages. Today, comfort can only be assessed and tested very late in the design a construction process (often using prototypes). Potentially, biomechanic software solutions provide a solution for early comfort testing. Hence, the application of this solution will decrease cost and development time. However, before one is able to create such a software solution, one must have insight into the relationship between mechanical parameters and comfort. This relationship was investigated through a series of experiments in a driving simulator. Both mechanical parameters and comfort were measured. The results showed that seat pressure measurements can be used to quantify driver comfort.
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Oudenhuijzen, A., Tan, K., and Morsch, F., "The Relationship Between Seat Pressure and Comfort," SAE Technical Paper 2003-01-2213, 2003, https://doi.org/10.4271/2003-01-2213.Also In
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