Human Anthropometry - Body Dimensions Catalog

Licensing
  The Human Anthropometry Catalog is only available with a product license.
The body dimension catalog contains anthropometry data related to people (children, elderly and pregnant woman), JPATS data, Army Natick and Military standard.
In the Body Dimensions Catalog, you will be able to  import:
 

See Opening the Standard Human Catalog to get to the HumanCatalog path.

Children
  The correlations used for children creation is based on adult data. Therefore, calculations have been made to adjust for this lack of data (no correlations for children are available as of today) ensuring more realistic results. It is mandatory to use the actual content of the anthropometry catalog without editing any anthropometry variables in order to preserve the accuracy of the children manikins
 

Lack of Data for the Elderly and Pregnant Womaen
  Because of lack of data related to elderly and pregnant woman anthropometry database, there is one single item for each of those populations. Regarding the elderly manikin, because hand size seems unrealistic, this variable has not been taken into consideration.  Instead, the multinormal calculation for estimation  is used.

  1. Select the required HumanCatalog. For this scenario, Select the Anthropometry directory.

  2. In the Anthropometry directory, select the Body_dimensions.catalog, and Open.

  3. Select the required pose, and select the Manikin from the PPR tree. In this scenario, we selected the Ladders,...leg from the 50 Percentile_Man.

     

  4. The whole manikin will turn orange, as we want all of the segments loaded onto the manikin.

     

  5. Click on Apply, and the selected pose is applied.

References
 

JPATS Anthropometry Standard
  Zehner Gregory F. Hudson Jeffrey A. A multivariate anthropometric method for crew station design (U) Department of Anthropology and School of Biomedical Sciences Kent State University Kent, Ohio, March 1993, Armstrong Laboratory

Zehner Gregory F. Hudson Jeffrey A. A multivariate anthropometric method for crew station design: Abridged, Department of Anthropology and School of Biomedical Sciences Kent State University Kent, Ohio, March 1993, Armstrong Laboratory

For the JPATS, it contains the anthropometry of 16 boundary manikins (8 women 8 men) connected to the calculation of JPATS anthropometric data coming from A multivariate anthropometric method for crew station design.

Boundary Manikins(cockpit, habitacle)
 
  • 1988 Anthropometric survey of U.S. Army personnel: Summary statistics interim report, NATICK/TR-89/027, United States Army Natic research, development and engineering center, March 1989.
  • Internal Safework method (min and max variable) The Army Natic boundary manikin data is based on the anthropometric data predefined in the software. The boundary manikin is available for American and Japanese population and for different percent of accommodation (90%, 95% and 99%).
  • For the cockpit the critical variable adjusted on the minimum and maximum are in order:
    • Eye height sitting
    • Buttock-knee length
    • Thumbtip reach
    • Knee height sitting
  • For the habitacle the critical variable adjusted on the minimum and maximum are in order:
    • Sitting height
    • Buttock-knee length
    • Thumbtip reach
    • Knee height sitting
 

Child Anthropometry
  Snyder Richard G. Schneider Lawrence W. Owings Clyde Reynolds Herbert M. Golomb D. Henry, Schork M. Anthony, UM-HSRI-77-17, Anthropometry of Infants, children and youths to age 18 for safety product, Final report, May 1977.

In this folder, there are the anthropometry of male and female, 2 to 19 years old, 5th, 50th and 95th percentile.

 

Elderly Anthropometry
  Stuart Smith, Beverley Norris, Laura Peebles, Older Adultdata, The Handbook of measurements and capabilities of the Older Adult, Data for design Safety, Government Consumer Safety Research, Department of Trade and Industry, University of Nottingham, January 2000.

For the elderly anthropometry, only the US data were taking into account. There are the data of male from the 50th percentile for the anthropometry and the angular limitation. The age range depends of the variable for the anthropometry, but it is between 58 to 97 years old, (see the number between the brackets in the anthropometrics variables list). For the angular limitation, the range is 60 to 84 years old for all the data.

Anthropometrics variables list Acromial height, sitting (65-69 years old) Acromial height, standing (65-69 years old) Biceps circumference, flexed (58-74 years old) Hand breadth (Removed) (62-91 years old) Hand circumference (Removed) (60-97 years old) Hand length (Removed) (62-91 years old) Stature (58-74 years old) Waist circumference, omphalion (58-74 years old) Weight (58-74 years old) Wrist circumference (60-97 years old)

 

Pregnant
  Rutter, Haager, Daigle, Smith, McFarland and Kelsey, 105 pregnant american woman, 1984.

Anne Paxton, Sally A Lederman, Steven B Heymsfield, Jack Wang, John C Thornton and Richard N Pierson Jr, Anthropometric equations for studying body fat in pregnant women, study of body-composition changes from week 14 of pregnancy in 200 black, white, and Hispanic women in New York City studied between January 1991 and January 1994.

The item concerns only data from the 16 weeks after the onset of pregnancy, except for the arm circumference and the wrist circumference that is for 14 weeks.

 

Military standard

 
  • MIL-STD-1472D, Military Standard, Human engineering design criteria for military systems, equipment, and facilities, Notice 2, 30 June 1992.
  • There are anthropometric data of air force female and male pilot (mean, 5th and 95th percentile) and General force male (mean, 5th and 95th percentile).