Ao Professor Tiago Becker, pela contribuição na definição da metodologia de realização dos ensaios experimentais e pelas correções realizadas.A Empresa Helios Coletivos e Cargas Ltda., por ceder seus ônibus para realização dos ensaios experimentais, e pelo interesse demonstrado durante a realização do estudo.Aos demais Professores da banca, pela contribuição para o resultado final deste trabalho.Aos meus pais, Nelson e Ivone pelo apoio durante esta caminhada.A minha esposa Grasiela, pelo enorme apoio e incentivo, que foram fundamentais para a realização deste trabalho.A todas as pessoas que auxiliaram direta ou indiretamente no desenvolvimento deste trabalho. ABSTRACTThe purpose of this work is to evaluate the vibratory levels the ones that the passengers of inter-municipal road buses are submitted; and fulfill a changing project in body/seat that attenuates such effect. The reduction of these levels is a necessity, because the passengers who use buses as half of transport in trips of long distance can be exposed to the vibratory effect that the chassis transmits to the body, and also the consequential vibration of the external effect, which is generated when the bus transits on roads. These effects can also generate risks of the structural components braking of the body. In this study measurements of the accelerations produced in the vertical direction were fulfilled in accordance with Norma ISO 2631, collated with the curve-limit of comfort, established health and fatigue in this norm. There is a necessity to quantify the vibration level that the bus passenger is submitted being seated in the armchair and to quantify how long it can use the transport without risks to its health. It is also necessary the body's behavior knowledge related to the vibratory effect to measure the structure components in a way they can resist to these effects. For the project modification it was developed a methodology of dynamic analysis, through the numerical model of the body, armchair and chassis experimentally applied to the numerical model, the rugosity of measured asphalt floors, allowing visualizing numerically the vibratory effect in the structure of the armchair and, consequently, to generate a changing project tempering such effect.

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The objective of this work is to evaluate the levels and vibratory effects that the passengers who use intermunicipal road buses are submitted. In the study, measurements of the accelerations produced in the vertical direction had been carried through according with norm ISO 2631, in two bus bodyworks, of different manufacturers, in a normal situation of use, in three points of it (frontal, central and back). With the measurements it was possible to point which are the places in the bodywork interior and the points in the seats that produce greater accelerations r.m.s. The results had been evaluated and compared with the curves values established for norm ISO 2631 in relation to health and comfort and in relation to fatigue, comparing the two tested bodyworks.

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