VISUALISATION OF BIOMECHANICAL STRESS QUANTITIES WITHIN CAD ENVIRONMENTS
Year: 2015
Editor: Christian Weber, Stephan Husung, Marco CantaMESsa, Gaetano Cascini, Dorian Marjanovic, Srinivasan Venkataraman
Author: Krueger, Daniel Benjamin; Wartzack, Sandro
Series: ICED
Institution: Friedrich-Alexander-Universitaet Erlangen-Nuernberg (FAU), Germany
Section: Design Information and Knowledge Management
Page(s): 021-030
ISBN: 978-1-904670-73-5
ISSN: 2220-4334
Abstract
The demographic development in many industrialised societies and markets with a growing power of the customers augments the importance of user-centred design approaches. In this regard it is crucial for design engineers to understand how the use of a product is affecting the prospective user physically and emotionally. In this contribution an attempt is made to quantify physical
effects on the human body during the interaction with technical systems. We present an approach to visualise biomechanical stress quantities obtained from simulations with musculoskeletal human models within CAD engineering environments. The objective is to enable designers to intuitively estimate how their solutions will influence the physical state of the user. The topic is relevant for the design of technical artefacts that are characterised by a close interaction with people. This comprises ergonomic questions in product design but also the planning of manufacturing processes as well as the development of medical devices for training and rehabilitation.
Keywords: Computer Aided Design (CAD), User Centred Design, Visualisation, Biomechanics, Ergonomics