Nowadays, comfort plays a prominent role for the design of automobiles. One aspect of comfort in automobiles depends on the contact forces between human and seat. In this thesis the relationship between subjective comfort ratings of test subjects and the force distribution on the seat is systematically investigated by performing seating experiments. In contrast to works done before, the new approach here is the use of a individual, human centered analysis procedure. From load distributions with no or very slight subjectively rated discomfort mean load distributions for back and buttocks are derived. These load distributions can be used as a goal to reach in the seat development process.
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Nowadays, comfort plays a prominent role for the design of automobiles. One aspect of comfort in automobiles depends on the contact forces between human and seat. In this thesis the relationship between subjective comfort ratings of test subjects and the force distribution on the seat is systematically investigated by performing seating experiments. In contrast to works done before, the new approach here is the use of a individual, human centered analysis procedure. From load distributions with...
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