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Design, Manufacture and Analysis of Sports Equipment
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Design, Manufacture and Analysis of Sports Equipment

A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Materials Science and Engineering".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2020) | Viewed by 12875

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Andy Harland

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Sports Technology Institute, Loughborough University, Loughborough Park, Loughborough LE11 3TU, UK
Interests: sports; sports engineering; footwear; design; aerodynamics; mechanical design and analysis of sports equipment; dynamics and acoustics of sports products; computer modelling of sports materials and products; design and mechanical testing of protective equipment; instrumentation and “smart” sports equipment
Prof. Dr. Anette "Peko" Hosoi

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Department of Mechanical Engineering, MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139-4307, USA
Interests: I am broadly interested in problems that lie at the intersection of biomechanics, applied mathematics, and sports. This includes projects that leverage newly available sports data, e.g., applying modern tools of statistics and machine learning to tracking data to extract information on decision-making and athlete physiology, or analyzing the role of luck in different sports leagues. This work is balanced with more classical problems such as developing reduced biomechanical models to improve running performance.
Prof. Dr. Christophe Clanet

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Laboratoire d'Hydrodynamique (LadHyx), Ecóle Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France
Interests: Sports Physics which is a domain of sport science at the intersection between physics, biomechanics and physiology. Some examples of questions addressed in the last few years: Why rowing synchronized ? How to understand gait transition in swimming? What is the phase space of sport ballistics ? How does a human lift a weight ? Since 2017, I have been in charge of the program Sciences 2024 dedicated to the scientific assistance of the French Athletes in view of Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The sports product sector, encompassing footwear, apparel, personal protective equipment, balls, bats, sports vehicles, fitness equipment, and various other hard goods and technologies, is reliant on insights, research, and innovation to maintain the competitive advantage of athletes, teams, and equipment suppliers. This Special Issue explores the application of science and engineering to the design, manufacture, and analysis of sports and its equipment across any of its forms.

Extending from custom-made products for elite performance through to mass-produced items for health and fitness in the general population, the sports equipment sector offers many challenges and opportunities for researchers. Much of this is underpinned by new and emerging insights from sports and their athletes, which themselves are enabled by original methods of analysis.

Contributions might consider new design methodologies, innovative approaches to product development, applications of new materials or approaches in manufacturing, sports data and innovative analysis methods, or examples of sustainable approaches to equipment development. Cross-disciplinary studies are especially welcome.

Prof. Dr. Andy Harland
Prof. Dr. Anette "Peko" Hosoi
Prof. Dr. Christophe Clanet
Guest Editors

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Applied Sciences is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

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Keywords

  • data in sports
  • sports product design and development
  • analysis of sports and equipment
  • personal protective equipment (PPE)
  • sustainable design and manufacture

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Body Scan Processing, Generative Design, and Multiobjective Evaluation of Sports Bras
by Audrey Bosquet, Caitlin Mueller and A.E. Hosoi
Appl. Sci. 2020, 10(17), 6126; https://doi.org/10.3390/app10176126 - 03 Sep 2020
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Sports bras are critical to the comfort and performance of female athletes, yet mechanical models of sports bras are generally not used to guide their design. Typically, assessing any sports bra’s performance requires time-consuming and expensive biomechanical testing, which limits the number of [...] Read more.
Sports bras are critical to the comfort and performance of female athletes, yet mechanical models of sports bras are generally not used to guide their design. Typically, assessing any sports bra’s performance requires time-consuming and expensive biomechanical testing, which limits the number of designs considered. To more broadly advance knowledge on how different design properties of sports bras affect their performance, this paper presents a new design framework to explore and evaluate the sports bra design space. The framework incorporates methods for body scan analysis, fast simulation, design generation, and performance evaluation. Using these methods together enables the rapid exploration of hundreds, or thousands, of designs—each one having been evaluated on key metrics related to sports bra performance, namely, range of motion and average pressure. With this framework, designers can potentially discover a diverse set of new, high-performing sports bra concepts, as well as gain insights into how design decisions affect performance. Full article
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Aerodynamic Characteristics of New Volleyball for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics
by Sungchan Hong, Hiroki Ozaki, Keita Watanabe and Takeshi Asai
Appl. Sci. 2020, 10(9), 3256; https://doi.org/10.3390/app10093256 - 07 May 2020
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The pattern of a modern volleyball is greatly different from that of a conventional volleyball, with several changes being made to the shape and design of the surface on the ball. Furthermore, at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, a new volleyball (V200W; Mikasa) with [...] Read more.
The pattern of a modern volleyball is greatly different from that of a conventional volleyball, with several changes being made to the shape and design of the surface on the ball. Furthermore, at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, a new volleyball (V200W; Mikasa) with 18 panels will be shown as the official ball. Therefore, this study compared the basic aerodynamic characteristics of conventional volleyballs with those of new designs in a wind tunnel. We used three full-size FIVB (Fédération Internationale de Volley-Ball) official volleyballs (V5M5000; Molten, MVA200; Mikasa and V200W; Mikasa) to determine the aerodynamic forces acting on each ball. The results indicate that the critical Reynolds number (Recr) differed depending on the ball types and their orientations. The Recr for the Molten ball (conventional) was determined to be ~3.4 × 105 (Cd = 0.17) on panel orientation A and ~2.7 × 105 (Cd = 0.14) on panel orientation B. Moreover, the Recr for the conventional Mikasa ball was determined to be ~2.6 × 105 (Cd = 0.14) on panel orientation A and ~3.0 × 105 (Cd = 0.13) on panel orientation B. On the other hand, the critical Reynolds number for the new volleyball (V200W) was ~2.9 × 105 (Cd = 0.17) in the panel orientation A and ~2.6 × 105 (Cd = 0.15) in panel orientation B. From these results, it can be hypothesized that, during a float serve, the flight trajectory will change depending on the type of volleyball and their orientation. Full article
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