Force exerted by the abdomen on our vest

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How to calculate the force or pressure by the movement of the abdomen (due to inhalation and exhalation) on the vest(tight T-shirt for example) that we are wearing ?
 
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Jones15 said:
How to calculate the force or pressure by the movement of the abdomen (due to inhalation and exhalation) on the vest(tight T-shirt for example) that we are wearing ?
Is this homework?
 
Evo said:
Is this homework?
Nope.. I need the exact value of pressure to give as input for the simulation work that i am doing.
 
Jones15 said:
Nope.. I need the exact value of pressure to give as input for the simulation work that i am doing.
Then you need to provide a LOT more information before anyone can even make an educated guess. At this point, there is no way anyone could say anything.
 
Best way will be to measure it. It won't be the same everywhere on the body. It will also depend on how tight the vest starts out. Things like sitting in a chair will alter how the material and body moves and will change the pressure on different parts of the body.
 
Your values also will vary greatly by:
sex,
age,
the distribution and mass of adipose tissue.

As it is stated, your question cannot be answered sensibly at all. You will have to develop a means of generating data for a large number of test subjects, to start with.