Cockpit Case Study

CHAPTER 1
INTRODUTION
1.1 INTRODUCTION
The Cockpit is the most important place in a race car. In the cockpit, there are located steering wheel, driver seat, throttle and brake pedal and gauges. It is the control room to the car. The driver can know the car’s condition when driving through the gauges that are installed on the dash board. It is important to design a cockpit that can give comfort to the driver. Improper design of the cockpit can make the driver uneasy, feel uncomfortable and can affect the driver’s driving performance.
Comfort in the human-machine interface and the mental aspects of the product or service is a primary ergonomic design concern. Comfort is one of the greatest aspects of a design’s effectiveness and is a primary ergonomics design concern. The utility of

The most important is the frame, because it defines the cockpit space and it was designed first.
Consequently, the design needs to be made according to the frame shape in order to fit the seat and firewall into it. A part from the frame, it is also needed to coordinate the designing process with the different stages of the steering wheel and the fuel delivery system.
2. Manufacturing restrictions:
It is also necessary to take into account the consequent restrictions of the manufacturing process. This means that the firewall and seat geometry needs to be designed considering the characteristics and limitations of the 5D CNC milling machine (used to obtain the milling models) and the Mould.
The most important of these restrictions is the necessity of achieving and adequate geometry to be able to take out the final pieces from the Mould. That is why is desired to get smooth surfaces without sudden changes of direction and complicated shapes in order to avoid problems during the different manufacturing stages.
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