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Application Possibility of Engine Drivers' Body Segments Ratios in Designing the Cab' Working Environment in Croatia

A total of 25 anthropological measures important for the engine driver's cab design were taken from a sample of 51 male engine drivers from all parts of Croatia, out of which 5 and 95 percentiles along with central 90 % were determined. According to scientific findings that body height decreases with age, subjects were divided by age into four groups. Calculated arithmetic mean and harmonic mean of ratios hi/h for individual anthropological measures hi in relation to the standing height h are the same for all age groups, with minor deviations. The research has been taken whenever it was possible to use body ratios hi/h for the design of driver's cab in new vehicles adapted to the target population of drivers, only by knowing standing height and mass span in the central 90 %. For final conclusions the research should be repeated with a larger sample, taking into account amounts of BMI within each age group because of insufficient and unequal number of respondents in age groups.

engine drivers ; body lengths ; ratios ; functional dependencies ; cab design

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