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Comfort
Building and testing car front seats with PAM-COMFORT
Reference: COM-FS-B

Level: Basic
Duration: 2-4 days (depends on FEM knowledge)
Audience: PAM-COMFORT users
Objectives: Learn to handle complete virtual seat testing with PAM-COMFORT, from meshing the different components to loading the seat with different types of dummies and human models.
Prerequisites: Basic FEA knowledge

 
Description: Build a seat model, and simulate the seating process of dummies and humans in order to retrieve H-Point, back, lumbar and thigh angles, backset distance, and several other outputs necessary to improve the seat design.

 
Course content:
  • Seat modeling
    - Frame
    - Suspensions
    - Foam blocks
    - Cover and Attachments (Velcros, Hog Rings, J-Clips)
    - Padding
  • Seat loading with HPM1 dummy (norm SAE J826)
    - H-Point
    - Pressure map
    - Metal proximity clearance
  • Seat loading with HRMD dummy (norm FMVSS202a)
    - Backset distance
  • Seat loading with HPM2 (ASPECT) dummy (norm SAE J4002)
    - Lumbar support prominence
  • Seat loading with human
    - RAMSIS connection
    - Pressure map
    - Volumetric stress in foam and flesh
    - Metal proximity clearance

 

 

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