Human Vibration

The OROS Body Vibration tool allow you to evaluate the affect of vibration on the human body according to standards ISO 2651 and ISO 5349. These standard define measurement practice and vibration signal analysis to evaluate the affect on health and and comfort of environmental and equipment vibrations on the Human body.

The ISO 2651 describe the affect on health and comfort of vibration on the whole-body in transportation system, and the ISO 5349 the affect on health of vibration on hands and arms when manipulating machine-tools or vibrating objects. In the following, we will see how to use OROS to evaluate these effect.

This is a post analysis toolkit, operating after the recording of the signal and will help you to calculate time-weighted signal of acceleration and specific indicators both defined in the standards.

Download & install

Download the program here (version from 16/11/2020) : https://orossas.sharepoint.com/:u:/g/support/ERx7p7QyS3tFvwhLyzDk-I8BhYdZULbj1WYLRA4xHJGc7A?e=sdgiBS

Once downloaded, you can unzip the folder and lunch the installer program Setup_OROS_BodyVibration_Tool_vXX.exe. Follow the step of the program to properly install the software.

The program will be installed in "C:\OROS\Programs\ExternalTools". Shortcuts are created on the main desktop, in the Windows Start program and in the "Link" repertory of NVGate. By that way you can directly run the program from NVGate.

How to use

1. Launch NVGate
   
   
2. Launch OROS_BodyVibration_Tool.exe
   
   
3. Open a project in NVGate
   
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4. In the tool, Click on list measurement to list all the measurement present in the project (only the measurement where the signal files are actually on the disk will be displayed. Ensure you have downloaded signal from the OR3X disk)
   
   
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5. Add the measurement you want to analyse in the "selected list" area (you can select several measurements) using the ">>" button. Use the "<<" button to remove file if needed.
   
   
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6. Select the weighting you want to apply on the time signal
   
   
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7. Select the weighting you want to apply for each direction X, Y and Z used for the indicators
   
   
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8. Select the indicators you want to calculate
   
   
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9. Click on "Start Processing"
   
   
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10. The processing is completed when a the following pop-up window appear. The results ans weighted signal have been generated in the current NVGate project. See the next sections for details.
    
    
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Toolkit results

Time-weighted signal

Studies of the affect of vibrations on the human body suggest that part of the body don't have the same response to vibrations, and will be sensitive to specific frequencies and transient component of vibration signal. In order to represent the sensitivity of the human boy, ISO standards defined time-weighting that must applied to the signal according to the environmental conditions. The following part present you how to apply time-weighting filters to your signal using the toolkit.

Time-weighting filters

As defined in the standards, specific time weighting must be applied to the acceleration signal in order to represent the effect of vibrations on health and comfort. Here is the list of the different time-weighting filters implemented in the toolkit :

Time-weighting filters

$W_{k}$	Time weighting for the Z axis for whole-body measurement (ISO 2651-1)
$W_{d}$	Time weighting for the X and Y axis for whole-body measurement (ISO 2651-1)
$W_{h}$	Time weighting for the hand-arms measurement in any direction (ISO 5349-1)
$W_{f}$	Time weighting for motion sickness measurement in the vertical direction (ISO 2651-1)
$W_{c}$	Time weighting for the X axis for whole-body measurement (ISO 2651-1)
$W_{e}$	Time weighting for all rotational directions for whole-body measurement (ISO 2651-1)
$W_{j}$	Time weighting for the Z axis for head comfort measurement (ISO 2651-1)
$W_{m}$	Time weighting for all directions for building's vibration comfort measurement (ISO 2651-2)

Usage in the toolkit

The toolkit allow you to calculate the filtered raw signal with any of the above weighting filters. This will allow you to display spectrums and calculate RMS via post-analysis in NVGate.

To calculate the raw weighted signal, simply select the filters you want in the "Time signal filters" section :

Once the processing in completed, a new measurement containing the filters signal for each selected filter is created in NVGate Project Manager :

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You can then load the filtered signal in the player as any signal in NVGate. Each track of the signal is filtered with the corresponding filter.

Health and comfort indicator

In addition to the time-weighting filters, the ISO standards present a series of specific indicators to evaluate the affect of vibrations on the Human body. The following section will present you how to use the toolkit to access these indicators.

Indicators

Body vibration indicators

$A_{w}$	Daily maximal exposure value (Calculated from Post processing in NVGate)
$Peak$	Amplitude Peak of the vibration; maximal amplitude of the signal from the 0 (Calculated from Post processing in NVGate)
$Crestfactor$	Ratio between the Peak level and the RMS of the weighted signal(Calculated from Post processing in NVGate)
$MTVV$	Maximum Transient Vibration Value, represent the maximal RMS value of the signal
$VDV$	Vibration Dose Value, taking into account the temporal shocks in the signal
$MSDV$	Motion Sickness Dose Value, representing the comfort in transportation measurement
$D_{k}$	The Acceleration Dose, representing the affect of the vibration on the spine

As defined in the table, $A_{w}$, $A(8)$, Peak amplitude and Crest factor indicators can be obtained in NVGate via post-processing of the appropriate weighted signal. The other indicators will be calculated by the toolkit.

In the toolkit

Before calculating the indicators in the toolkit, you must define a filter for each directions. Filters will be selected in accordance with the wanted result (Hand-arms; Whole-Body, ..) and the direction of the measurement as specified in the table describing the filters. Filters will be applied to the signal before calculating the indicators, but the time-filtered signal will not be saved.

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You will then need to select the indicators to be calculated bi ticking the boxes.

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The MTVV Tau is the integration time in seconds used for the calculation of the MTVV. The ISO 2651 recommand to use 1sec. This is the default value of the setting.

You can then start the processing to calculate the indicators.

Once completed, the result can be find the currently opened project in the NVGate Project manager. A new measurement called "NAME_OF_THE_Signal_out" containing the result is created. As many measurement folder as selected signal will be created during the processing.

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Each indicator is calculated for each direction and for each track of the signal. The name of the result contain the name of the track, the considered direction and the filter used for that direction (except for the $D_{k}$ which use specific filters). The following picture show the indicators for the first track (SeatPadX) of the signal :

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Here this track represent the X direction. We can remove the results in irrelevant directions (Y and Z) for this track by a right click, and repeat this operation for each channel :

/Insert image of the result with only relevant direction when bug solve/

You can then display the result in NVGate by double clicking.

Calculating the other indicators with NVGate

$A_{w}$

$A_{w}$ is the daily vibration dose. It is calculated from an average of the RMS values form the weighted signal and represent the "quantity" of vibration the human body will receive when using of the tested equipment.

This value is defined as : $A_{w}={\sqrt {(k_{x}*a_{w_{x}})^{2}+(k_{y}*a_{w_{y}})^{2}+(k_{z}*a_{w_{z}})^{2}}}$, with $k_{i}$ defined in the standard and $a_{w_{x}}$ the RMS value of the weighted acceleration signal in accordance to the direction, as defined in the table of the precedent section.

Calculation in NVGate

To calculate the $A_{w}$ in NVGate, calculmate the RMS level of the weighted signal in Post analysis. Here, we will calculate the $A_{w}$ for the SeatPad measurement as defined for a whole-body measurement in the ISO 2651. According to the [Human_Vibration#Time-weighting_filters|table]], we need to calculate the RMS level of the $W_{k}$ weighted signal for the Z direction and the $W_{d}$ weighted signal for the X and Y directions. You then must display the three RMS level in the same window :

Practical information about measurements

Durée de mesure Type de mesure Placement des capteurs Exemple de capteur : [Pad accelerometer] Capteur avec adaptateurs hand arms