Evaluation of T-72 tank driver seat based on anthropometric dimensions of Ethiopian military tank drivers.

In the world it is difficult to design in terms of average dimension. For this reason anthropometric plays a great rule in the world in design of products. In Ethiopia T-72 tanks are the most important weapons that give a strong support to the ground force in the battle field. So the question of the correct ergonomically design and analysis of the driver seat especially in terms of comfort is mandatory so due to this fact, study anthropometric of driver's seat is very important. It is necessary to define the drivers' space and seat dimensions by considering the size of the average people according to their body dimensions. The basic questions for this research are (i) To what extent the soviet fabricated tank driver's seat is comfortable to Ethiopia army, (ii) Is there significant different between the body size dimension of soviet and Ethiopian army, and (iii) The Ethiopian military derivers have awareness of the comfort. The main goal of this paper is to conduct descriptive survey on an ergonomics assessment of driver's seat of T72 tank. Following sitting height, popliteal height, sitting to shoulder height, shoulder breadth, buttocks to popliteal length, and hip breadth seated anthropometric dimensions were measured of 45 subjects / respondents (35 males, 10 females) randomly selected from the field study. Mean, standard deviation, and T-test were calculated based on anthropometric data of subjects. Results revealed suggest a mismatch among the dimensions of current T-72 Russian fabricated tank motive force seat and the anthropometric dimensions of military staffs. This recommends that anthropometric information of the Ethiopian army tank drivers changed into not working in the design and manufacturing of the seats. This research is may be cautioned that tank driving force seat of T-72 tank and tank drivers anthropometric measurements are at variance. Therefore, the paper presents anthropometric statistics that may be utilized by the Russian manufacturers of tank seats design and fabrication it. As according to the result, it's miles viable to make nice recommendations on the way to enhance the tank driving force seat layout of tank. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]