Moritz / Haake Engineering of Sport 6

Volume 1: Developments for Sports
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-387-46050-5
Verlag: Springer US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 444 Seiten, eBook

What you are holding in your hands is probably the best overview of activities in sports engineering available at the time of printing; i. e. the state of the art in summer 2006. It is the result of so many people's work to whom we are indebted that it is difficult to name them: there are the authors, the scientific advisory board, the scientific committee, the theme patrons, the publisher and printer, the advisors of whatever kind - and, here we have to make an exception, there is Ingo and Amanda. Nobody who has been part of the production of this book could have done without them, at the very least us: they handled issues you wouldn't even believe could turn up with efficiency and charm. Thanks, Ingo Valtingoier; thanks, Amanda Staley. In the accumulation of the contributions and the preparation of the proceedings we encountered one development that we were very happy about: the sports engineering community keeps growing - in the number or researchers and experts involved, but also in the breadth of disciplines and institutions contributing. This should definitely be interpreted as a positive development - even though in the evaluation of contributions this lead to a number of intricate discussions.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Haake, Steve

Moritz, Eckehard

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Golf general concerns.- Ski/other Winter Sports.- Athletics.- Cycling.- Tennis and other Racket Sports.- Soccer.- Baseball.- Lawn Sports.- Motorsports.- Fitness.- Climbing.- Outdoor Sports.- Sailing/Water Sports.- Performance Sports.- Gymnastics.

Leseproben

"8 Football (p. 313-314)

Synopsis of Current Developments: Soccer Matt Carre Sports Engineering Research Group, Universityof Sheffield, m.j [e-mail]

Soccer is arguably the biggest sport in the world, in terms of the impact on everyday lives, either through spectating or participation. Indeed, as the conference to which these proceedings are linked begins, we will all still be recovering from the excitement of the 2006 World Cup final that occurred in Berlin a few days previously. A sport that has so much impact, unsurprisingly also generates great research interest, reflected in the number of papers in the following section as well as in other sections of these proceedings. In sports engineering this research is fairly well distributed between four key components of the game: the ball, the pitch, the footwear used and the players themselves.

The soccer ball has been re-designed and improved many times over the years and current designs employ a combination of careful material selection and sophisticated manufacturing techniques to produce balls which are impressive in terms of performance, durability and consistency. Ronkainen and Harland describe a technique using laser Doppler vibrometry to carry out modal analysis of a soccer ball. This will be of great use in determining the mechanical response of a ball due to dynamic loadingand aid in the further improvement of ball design. Asai et al. concentrate their efforts on the flight of the ball and combine some traditional wind tunnel experiments for spinning and non-spinning soccer balls with a truly innovative method of obtaining flow visualisations for real, kicked balls.

The data obtained and findings observed will undoubtedly be of great use to future studies of soccer ball aerodynamics. Two papers in this section are concerned with the performance of the pitch. AIcatara et al. examine synthetic soccer surfaces, in particular those that incorporate an in-fill of sand and rubber granules (known in the industry as third-generation pitches) . Their paper compares pitch installations that have a varying size of rubber granule with various measurement indices, to study the effect of rubber infill morphology on mechanical performance. This information can be utilised in the future design of these types of surface.

The paper by Jennings-Temple et al. looks at the more traditional surface used in soccer, natural turf, and they investigatethe link between physical soil propertiesand playing quality for player-surface interaction. In many countries, soccer is played during the winter season and the pitch is exposed to harsh weather conditions, which can have a detrimental effect on the game. The findings from this study can be used to improve pitch-management and maintenance strategies, improving the quality of play for players and spectators alike."