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Materials in Sports Equipment, Second Edition, provides a detailed review on the design and performance of materials in sports apparel, equipment and surfaces in a broad range of… Read more
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Materials in Sports Equipment, Second Edition, provides a detailed review on the design and performance of materials in sports apparel, equipment and surfaces in a broad range of sporting applications. Chapters cover materials modeling, non-destructive testing, design issues for sports apparel, skull and mouth protection, and new chapters on artificial sport surfaces, anthropometric design customization, and 3D printing in sports equipment. In addition, the book covers sports-specific design and material choices in a range of key sports, from baseball, rowing, and archery, to ice hockey, snowboarding, and fishing.
Users will find a valuable resource that explicitly links materials, engineering and design principles directly to sports applications, thus making it an essential resource to materials scientists, engineers, sports equipment designers and sports manufacturers developing products in this evolving field.
R&D in sports materials, material scientists, sports manufacturers and product designers, Athletes and trainers; sports engineers, Students in sports engineering, technology or materials
Part 1: General Issues
1. Modelling of materials for sports equipment
Martin Strangwood
2. Non-destructive testing of sports equipment: the use of infrared thermography
Jose Ignacio Priego Quesada
3. Protective helmets in sports
Scott Piland
4. Wearable technologies in sports
Farnaz Memarian, Shahrzad Rahmani, Maryam Yousefzadeh and Masoud Latifi
5. 3D Printing of sports equipment
Mladenko Kajtaz, Martin Leary, Milan Brandt and Aleksandar Subic
6. 5 Mouth protection in sports
Scott Piland
Part 2: Specific Sports
7. Benchmarking and regulation of glove grip in Australian football
Franz Konstantin Fuss
8. Design and materials in baseball
9. Design and materials in snowboarding
10. Design and materials in ice hockey
David James Pearsall
11. Design and materials in fly fishing
12. Design and materials in archery
Bob W. kooi
13. Design and materials in rowing
14. Design and materials in athletics
Nicholas Linthorne
15. Design and materials in fitness equipment
16. Foot orthosis in running
Jose Ignacio Priego Quesada and Irene Jimenez-Perez
17. Compressive garments in running.
Jose Ignacio Priego Quesada and Pedro Pérez-Soriano
18. Nanotechnology in sport clothing
Masoud Latifi and Ali Akbar Gharehaghaji
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