STUDY OF HUMAN ACCESSIBILITY: COMPARISON BETWEEN PHYSICAL TESTS AND NUMERICAL SIMULATION RESULTS
DS 77: Proceedings of the DESIGN 2014 13th International Design Conference
Year: 2014
Editor: Marjanovic Dorian, Storga Mario, Pavkovic Neven, Bojcetic Nenad
Author: Delangle, M.; Poirson ,E.; Petiot ,J.-F.
Series: DESIGN
Section: INDUSTRIAL DESIGN
Page(s): 2023-2032
Abstract
Using numerical model of static human body commonly assesses the human accessibility, essential part of an ergonomic approach of product. Considering the body as a simple assembly of static parts of different anthropometry is limiting. The physical skills and muscles compliance are to take into account in the digital human model. In this paper, the validity of this approach is assessed by comparing the reach envelopes obtained from a numerical method to those obtained experimentally on a simple situation of accessibility of the upper body.
Keywords: population model, numerical simulation, comparative analysis