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Study on ride comfort assessment of multiple occupants using lumped parameter analysis

Deb, A and Joshi, D (2012) Study on ride comfort assessment of multiple occupants using lumped parameter analysis. In: SAE 2012 World Congress & Exhibition, 16 April, 2012.

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.4271/2012-01-0053

Abstract

Growing consumer expectations continue to fuel further advancements in vehicle ride comfort analysis including development of a comprehensive tool capable of aiding the understanding of ride comfort. To date, most of the work on biodynamic responses of human body in the context of ride comfort mainly concentrates on driver or a designated occupant and therefore leaves the scope for further work on ride comfort analysis covering a larger number of occupants with detailed modeling of their body segments. In the present study, governing equations of a 13-DOF (degrees-of-freedom) lumped parameter model (LPM) of a full car with seats (7-DOF without seats) and a 7-DOF occupant model, a linear version of an earlier non-linear occupant model, are presented. One or more occupant models can be coupled with the vehicle model resulting into a maximum of 48-DOF LPM for a car with five occupants. These multi-occupant models can be formulated in a modular manner and solved efficiently using MATLAB/SIMULINK for a given transient road input. The vehicle model and the occupant model are independently verified by favorably comparing computed dynamic responses with published data. A number of cases with different dispositions of occupants in a small car are analyzed using the current modular approach thereby underscoring its potential for efficient ride quality assessment and design of suspension systems.

Item Type: Conference Paper
Publisher: SAE International
Additional Information: Copyright of this article belongs to SAE International.
Keywords: SAE; Automotive Engineers
Department/Centre: Division of Mechanical Sciences > Centre for Product Design & Manufacturing
Date Deposited: 12 Mar 2014 05:54
Last Modified: 12 Mar 2014 05:54
URI: http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/48607

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