Implementing design tools for military vehicles in an open-source computer-aided engineering framework

• Main Author: Tan, Young Kiat Zenn
• Other Authors: Teo Ee Chon
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Mechanical engineering
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/71465
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Military vehicle design in the USA has been governed by MIL-STD 1472G, which establishes human factor guidelines for operators in vehicles. However, the guidelines do not account for the distribution of occupant characteristics or the effect of body-borne gear, and the vehicle-design portions of the...