Vehicle vibrations significantly affect the health and comfort of driver passengers. The aim this study is to analyze effects vertical vehicle caused by speed bumpers on driver's lower back neck in terms forces. To achieve goal, a human biodynamic model with 11 degrees freedom was included half 5 freedom. This composite subjected half-sinusoidal shaped bumps different sizes (heights widths) spe...

Trunk biomechanical models play an indispensable role in predicting muscle forces and spinal loads under whole-body vibration (WBV) exposures. Earlier measurements on the force-motion biodynamic response (impedance, apparent mass) at the body-seat interface and vibration transmissibility (seat to head) have led to the development of different mechanical models. Such models could simulate the ov...

Footbridges are generally slender and lightweight structures with low stiffness, designed to support dynamic loads generated by crowds. Therefore, these exposed vibration problems related the resonance of human walking step frequencies lower modes. To mitigate problems, one most applied corrective strategies is installation tuned mass damper (TMD) systems that aim at reduction footbridge’s domi...

Abstract Biodynamic agriculture (BD agriculture) was presented as an alternative form of by the philosopher Rudolf Steiner and is nowadays considered one forms organic agriculture. The objective present manuscript to critically review international scientific literature on biodynamic published in highly ranked journals assess its performance. This based a structured survey peer-reviewed indexed...

The apparent mass and seat-to-head-transmissibility response functions of the seated human body are investigated under exposures to fore-aft (x), lateral (y), and combined fore-aft and lateral (x and y) axis whole-body vibration. The experiments were performed to study the effects of hands support, back support and vibration magnitude on the body interactions with the seat pan and the backrest,...

In this work we propose a multiagent architecture for web educational resources retrieval that helps users to find courses according to their personal and cultural aspects. Cultural aspects are preferences and ways of behavior determined by the person’s culture. In this work, the cultural aspects are just the features that distinguish between the preferences of users from different regions. Thi...

The analysis of building evacuation has recently received increasing attention, as people are keen to assess the safety of occupants. Reports on past huge disasters indicate that human behaviors characterize evacuation during emergencies. Understanding and modeling of human behavior enable improved design of society to better reflect the needs of occupants, for example, to reduce evacuation tim...

NTRODUCTION his chapter concerns the philosophy underlying the Biodyamic model of osteopathy in the cranial field (BOCF). To do his we employ a Hegelian dialectic, a weave of BOCF principles ith BOCF science, presented within an historical context. We will compare biomechanical OCF with Biodynamic CF, or “left-brained versus right-brained cranial” as Fred itchell likes to quip. No treatment met...