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. Provides both updated and new chapters on recent developments in the design and performance of advanced materials in a number of sports applicationsDiscusses varying aspects, such as the modeling of materials behavior and non-destructive testing Analyzes the aerodynamic properties of materials and the design of sports apparel and smart materialsExplores new topics on athletic equipment, such as 3D printing and anthropometric design customization and on artificial sports surfaces INDICE: 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
- ISBN: 978-0-08-102582-6
- Editorial: Woodhead Publishing
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 690
- Fecha Publicación: 01/04/2019
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés