Naslov
Research of deformation and comfort index of office work chairs

Autori
Vlaović, Zoran ; Grbac, Ivica ; Domljan, Danijela ; Bublić, Andrej

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u zbornicima skupova, cjeloviti rad (in extenso), znanstveni

Izvornik
Proceedings of 20th international scientific conference: Wood is good – new materials, quality and design of products / Grbac, Ivica - Zagreb : University of Zagreb, Faculty of Forestry, Innovawood, 2009, 9-20

ISBN
953292013-7

Skup
International scientific conference: Wood is good – new materials, quality and design of products

Mjesto i datum
Zagreb, Hrvatska, 16.10.2009

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Poster

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
Keywords: sitting; comfortability of sitting; comfort index; support factor; office chair

Sažetak
The sitting position is the most frequent working position of the modern man today. If the position itself is regular and physiologically correct, then it diminishes the fatigue during work and the strain of the spine. Independently of the type of the work, the suitable sitting position significantly contributes to the increase of concentration and efficiency. The solution of the working chair as a real object of the human working environment is important from the viewpoint of construction of the seat, but also of the back, since these are the elements which are in a direct and close connection to the human body. It is possible to examine sitting as a working position in different ways – one is through coordination of anthropometric sizes and the form of the seat and back, and the second way is mechanically, through determining the relation between the user and the seat quality, where the comfort index has a great influence. The comfort index (or support factor) as one of the more important factors of the comfortability of sitting results from the mechanical characteristics of the observed chair. This work shows the results of determining the seat comfortability of sitting on office chairs through the prism of elastic characteristics of materials in the seat, but also of the seat itself according to technical specifications HRS ENV 14443, i.e. results of ''mechanical comfort'' which the chair can offer to the user, shown through the index of comfort.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Drvna tehnologija

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