Experimental Investigation of the Characteristics of Mechanical Impedance of Korean- Seated Subjects

한국인의 앉은 자세에 대한 Mechanical Impedance의 실험적 연구

This paper introduces attempts to obtain the 'representative' characteristics of the mechanical impedance of seated Korean subjects under vertical vibration. Individual responses of driving-point mechanical impedance obtained from forty-one Korean subjects are illustrated. Four kinds of vibration levels and three different sitting postures are selected to collect the responses of each subject. Those individual responses are used to estimate the 'mean' mechanical impedance, which may be expected to be a representative model to Korean subjects. Several interesting features of the estimated mechanical impedance are suggested and compared to those of ISO/DIS 5982.