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Predicting the Head-Neck Posture and Muscle Force of the Driver Based on the Combination of Biomechanics with Multibody Dynamics

2017-03-28
2017-01-0407
Biomechanics and biodynamics are increasingly focused on the automotive industry to provide comfortable driving environment, reduce driver fatigue, and improve passenger safety. Man-centered conception is a growing emphasis on the open design of automobile. During the long-term driving, occupational drivers are easily exposed to the neck pain, so it is important to reduce the muscle force load and its fatigue, which are not usually considered quantitatively during traditional ergonomics design, so standards related are not well developed to guide the vehicle design; On the other hand, the head-neck models are always built based on the statics theory, these are not sufficient to predict the instantaneous variation of the muscle force. In this paper, a head-neck model with multi DOFs is created based on multibody dynamics. Firstly, a driver-vehicle-road model considering driver multi-rigid body model, vehicle subsystems, and different ranks of pavement is built.
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The Parameter Vibration for Biomechanical Compound Pendulum Based on Multibody Dynamics

2016-04-05
2016-01-1059
The parameter vibration is a hot topic for nonlinear vibration. Some results of its study have been used in aerospace, machining technology, motor vibration and many other fields, and the sport that people play on the swing is a classic one. In this paper, by creating the model of standard human body and swing, a biomechanical compound pendulum consisting of nine bodies and relevant force elements consisting of springs and dampers are regarded, then the movement is simulated in ADAMS. The time history of the swinging angle of the system is measured and the trace of the mass center is also displayed. Furthermore, in order to examine the stability of the system, the phase portraits are provided, and the stable diagram is obtained under different values of relevant parameters.
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