Output details
15 - General Engineering
University of Southampton
A simplified 3-D human body–seat interaction model and its applications to the vibration isolation design of high-speed marine craft
Significance of output:
The introduction of legislation on exposure to vibration at work has the potential to significantly impact the operators of high speed marine craft such as the RNLI, MOD and offshore industries. Previous work has shown that the levels of vibration are far in excess of the limits. The levels of vibration experienced could potentially cause long term injury to the crews of these boats and so this paper describes a method of modelling the transmission of the vibration from the boat to the humans which allows the performance of vibration reducing devices to be investigated without using human participants.
