Advanced Materials for Sports Equipment

How Advanced Materials Help Optimize Sporting Performance and Make Sport Safer

By: E.A. Easterling

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Paperback | 30 November 1992

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144 Pages

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Practically all sports have benefitted in some crucial way from the introduction of synthetic materials. This book aims to provide a readable introduction to these new materials. The design, construction and production of sports equipment today is based on a number of considerations. The three most important of these are improved performance, attractive appearance and freedom and protection from injury. All of these main objectives are achieved by clever design and most important, extremely careful choice of materials. The production of sports equipment is a multi-billion dollar industry, with the result that a great deal of investment on the part of the producers goes into competitive design and production. The most advanced materials available are used in practically all sports equipment, many deriving directly from the aerospace industry, and this includes bicycles, boats, surfboards, canoes, athletics equipment, tennis and squash racquets, skis and others. This book examines the role played by advanced materials in the design, performance, appearance and safety aspects of these various equipments, and gives pointers concerning likely future developments.

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Welcomed by everyone who wants to know about the materials hidden below the glossy finish of modern equipment - Nature; Easterling writes for lay readers in sports medicine, design or materials - Reference & Research Book News; A seminal theme throughout, and one understated by the title, is the importance of effective interaction between materials science, design, and bioengineering in producing these items of equipment...provides an interesting and entertaining introductory read...an enjoyable and worthwhile book, particularly in its emphasis on the importance of a multi-disciplinary approach to design - Materials World; From initial functionality concepts through design, manufacture and testing the reader is gently led through each of the stages in a most readable and enjoyable fashion...For those involved in education it provides a number of case studies which should prove to be welcome distractions from the usually analytical design problems. For others it is a good and interesting read - Composite Structures

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