Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Biomedical Engineering (ICoBE), 2012 International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Penang
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1990-5
DOI :
10.1109/ICoBE.2012.6179047
