Investigation of performance of laminated bamboo chair through virtual testing

  • Authors:

  • Vanchai Laemlaksakul

  • Affiliations:

  • Industrial Engineering Technology Department, King Mongkut's University of Technology North Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand

  • Venue:
  • MACMESE'08 Proceedings of the 10th WSEAS international conference on Mathematical and computational methods in science and engineering
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

The strength and durability of chair is one of the most important requirements for furniture design. A numerical method for predicting the strength and the durability has been successfully developed and used to examine the quality control and structure design of a chair. This particular study assessed the strength under static and dynamic loading test analysis of a laminated bamboo chair. The numerical model of ISO 7173 (Furniture - Chairs and stools - Determination of strength and durability) was employed to establish a procedure to perform virtual testing on the laminated one in order to reduce loss from structure failure, cost of sample testing and time. The simulations involve a non-linear dynamic finite element (FE) software. The virtual testing showed the improvement of design of laminated bamboo chair.