Bus seat suspension modification for pregnant women

Author

Gohari, Mohammad ; Rahman, Roslan Abd ; Raja, Raja Ishak ; Tahmasebi, Mona

Author_Institution

Dept. of Syst. Dynamics & Control, Univ. Technol. Malaysia (UTM), Johor Bahru, Malaysia

fYear

2012

Firstpage

404

Lastpage

407

Abstract

The physical safety and mentally health of pregnant females are very important. Uterine blood flow can increase in low frequencies and it is harmful for pregnant mothers. Long term trips sometimes are not avoidable and pregnant persons have to do that. In this study, special bus seat suspension was design and optimized based on pregnant biodynamic model. Artificial neural network method was used for optimization of seat to womb vibration transmissibility. Finally, after optimizing this suspension is able to attenuate unwanted vibration of womb near 85%. Therefore, it is required to fabricate and use this suspension in buses for out of city journeys.

Keywords

biomechanics; haemodynamics; health and safety; medical computing; neural nets; obstetrics; optimisation; road vehicles; suspensions (mechanical components); artificial neural network method; bus seat suspension modification; mental health; optimization; physical safety; pregnant biodynamic model; pregnant women; seat to womb vibration transmissibility; uterine blood flow; Artificial neural networks; Biological system modeling; Pregnancy; Shock absorbers; Springs; Vibrations; Artificial neural network; Lumped models; Seat suspension; optimization; special seat for pregnants;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Biomedical Engineering (ICoBE), 2012 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Penang

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1990-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICoBE.2012.6179047

Filename

6179047