Objective The following key achievements have been reached and demonstrated: - a new product development process for seat engineering is operating within the development centers of the industrial partners joining the consortium - a network for R & D in seat engineering is operating as a result of the know-how achieved by universities and research center belonging to the consortium - the achieved results on criteria for comfort and safety represent the starting point to address the evolution of related European Normatives and Standards. The value as well as the expected return of the above mentioned achievements is remarkable, this is the consequence of the continuous rise of the expectations as well as the functions related to the seat systems, determining a key role of the Engineering Platform for developing new products for automotive seating.SED has the objective of developing criteria, methodologies, data bases and numerical tools for evaluation and design of car seats.The involved disciplines are biomechanics, ergonomy and numerical and experimental modeling of complex, non linear dynamic systems, material science, computer science.The themes adressed by this prenominative research are safety, recyclability, posture comfort, thermal comfort, ride comfort. Fields of science natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesnatural sciencesbiological sciencesbiophysics Programme(s) FP3-BRITE/EURAM 2 - Specific programme (EEC) of research and technological development in the field of industrial and materials technologies, 1990-1994 Topic(s) 2.1.2 - Design methodologies for complex components Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme CSC - Cost-sharing contracts Coordinator CENTRO RICERCHE FIAT S.C.P.A. Address Strada torino 50 10043 Orbassano Italy See on map EU contribution No data Participants (6) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all Courtaulds Textile Automotive Products United Kingdom EU contribution € 0,00 Address Manchester road M28 5WG Manchester See on map Other funding No data LEAR NOSAG GMBH Germany EU contribution € 0,00 Address Varenseuer straße 11-15 4835 Rietberg See on map Other funding No data Loughborough University of Technology United Kingdom EU contribution € 0,00 Address Ashby road LE11 3TU Loughborough See on map Other funding No data Sepi SpA Italy EU contribution € 0,00 Address Via san luigi 20 10043 Orbassano torino See on map Other funding No data TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN Germany EU contribution € 0,00 Address Gustav-meyer-allee 25 1000 Berlin See on map Other funding No data University of Southampton United Kingdom EU contribution € 0,00 Address Highfield SO9 5NH Southampton See on map Other funding No data
