We were honored to have Reza Rahmani from General Motors Corporation present at the SIMULIA Americas Users Conference, May 3-4, 2023 in Novi, Michigan.
Abstract: Today’s car seats and the technologies used in them have evolved multifold over the time with changing customer needs, vehicle regulations, and levels of autonomy. Each level of autonomy is opening new opportunities and challenges to create a delightful human experience by achieving excellent seat comfort. Seats are always being designed to take care of various percentiles of occupant’s comfort requirements, and hence seats are equipped with various seating adjustment features. However, there is an enormous variation in each percentile occupants the way they occupy and achieve comfortable seating position by using the seating adjustment features. Also, there is a difference in occupant seating posture the way individuals have adopted to their own driving habits or styles due to various circumstances. The objective of this paper is to highlight the outcome of a study conducted to understand the sensitivity of all possible variations in seating position and occupant posture on occupant’s seating comfort. This study was conducted by replicating the physical occupant seating posture in CAE environment.
Bio: Reza Rahmani is a Technical Lead in Cabin Comfort VDDV at General Motors. His specialty is in Seat Comfort analysis where seats are subjected to various static load cases ranging from fixtures to humanoid manikins. Reza’s educational background is applied physics, mechanics, and tissue engineering and has more than 27 years combined automotive CAE experience. He loves to expand CAE capabilities while working at GM.
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