Module 2: Anthropometric and biomechanical aspects of ergonomic design
Time requirement: approx. 90 minutes, of which 50 minutes are for anthropometrics and 40 minutes for biomechanics
Last update 2019
The students become familar with:
- An understanding of human body dimensions and their distribution
- Recognition of the relationships between body and design dimensions, and differentiation between design dimensions
- Recognition of factors influencing body dimensions
- Knowledge of national and international sources of data and their application
- Knowledge of important data relating to visual geometry, and of their application and significance
- Insights into conventional and modern tools for workplace and product design
- Findings relating to seat reference points for design
- Knowledge of the main functional dimensions such as areas of reach, body space envelopes and safety distances, and of their significance and differentiation between them
- Determining of aspects of physical stress and strain
- Distinction between the effects of physical stress upon human beings
- Insights into forms of muscle work
- Familiarity with distinctions between physical strengths
- Findings relating to influences upon maximum and permissible physical forces
- Insights into the structure and functioning of the spine
- Knowledge of stress factors and limits
- Knowledge of strategies for evaluation and of normative references
