TY  - BOOK
AU  - Allen, Thomas
AU  - Foster, Leon
AU  - Webster, James
AU  - Strangwood, Martin
AB  - Advances in materials are crucial to the development of sports equipment, from tennis rackets to skis to running shoes. Materials-driven improvements in equipment have helped athletes perform better, while enhancing safety and making sport more accessible and enjoyable. This book brings together a collection of 10 papers on the topic of sports materials, as published in a Special Issue of Applied Sciences. The papers within this book cover a range of sports, including golf, tennis, table tennis and baseball. State-of-the-art engineering techniques, such as finite element modelling, impact testing and full-field strain measurement, are applied to help further our understanding of sports equipment mechanics and the role of materials, with a view to improving performance, enhancing safety and facilitating informed regulatory decision making. The book also includes papers that describe emerging and novel materials, including auxetic materials with their negative Poisson’s ratio (fattening when stretched) and knits made of bamboo charcoal. This collection of papers should serve as a useful resource for sports engineers working in both academia and industry, as well as engineering students who are interested in sports equipment and materials.
DO  - 10.3390/books978-3-03928-163-3
ID  - OAPEN ID: 43659
KW  - n/a
KW  - foam
KW  - finite element
KW  - sportswear textiles
KW  - cannon
KW  - textiles
KW  - impact attenuation
KW  - shockpad
KW  - foam protective mats
KW  - robot
KW  - additive manufacturing
KW  - indentation
KW  - bat
KW  - rubber
KW  - slope of grain
KW  - wood
KW  - injury
KW  - strain
KW  - impact
KW  - durability
KW  - protective equipment
KW  - mechanical properties
KW  - artificial turf
KW  - strain propagation
KW  - auxetic foam
KW  - sports safety
KW  - torsion
KW  - quick-dry yarn
KW  - concussion
KW  - baseball
KW  - finite element modelling
KW  - polymer
KW  - strain rate
KW  - Charpy
KW  - protection
KW  - rate dependence
KW  - functional composite yarns
KW  - impact testing
KW  - golf
KW  - helmet
KW  - architecture
KW  - auxetic
KW  - clubhead
KW  - digital image correlation
KW  - finite element analysis
KW  - tennis
KW  - comfort
KW  - negative Poisson’s ratio
KW  - friction
KW  - bamboo charcoal yarn
KW  - EFG method
KW  - sport
KW  - finite elements
KW  - shaft
L1  - https://www.mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/1996
LA  - English
LK  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/59887
PB  - MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
PY  - 2020
SN  - 9783039281633
SN  - 9783039281626
TI  - Sports Materialsnull
ER  - 
