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MOST modern vehicles move, by design or accident, to some extent in all six theoretical axes (movement along and rotation around the three orthogonal axes, fore-aft, side-side, and up-down). Whole-body vibration is likely to be applied to human occupants most frequently and with greatest power in the vertical (seat to head) direction, however1. Investigations of major physiological and psychological effects of vertical vibration have, in addition, usually used sine-wave forcing functions as a necessary research convenience2.
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HUDDLESTON, H. Vertical Sinusoidal Vibration as a Psychological Stress. Nature 211, 324–325 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/211324b0
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