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DOI: | 10.1007/BF02844119 |
Web URL(s): | https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2FBF02844119.pdf#page=16 Last checked: 10/05/2017 Requires: PDF Reader Access conditions: Item is within a limited-access website Notes: Item is within a single large file |
Publication Type:
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Author(s): | Fleming, Paul;
Young, Colin |
Author Affiliation: | Loughborough University, UK |
Title: | Sports surfaces - Impact assessment tools |
Section: | Abstracts from the 6th International Conference on the Engineering of Sport: Chapter 8 - Testing, prototyping, benchmarking Other records with the "Abstracts from the 6th International Conference on the Engineering of Sport: Chapter 8 - Testing, prototyping, benchmarking" Section
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Meeting Info.: | Munich, Germany: July 10-14, 2006 |
Source: | Sports Engineering. Vol. 9, No. 3, September 2006, p. 190. |
Publishing Information: | [Oxford, England]: Blackwell Science |
# of Pages: | 1 |
Keywords: | TIC Keywords: Evaluative methods; Impact tests; Surface quality
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Abstract/Contents: | "This paper reviews two current and two emerging test methods for the impact assessment of sports surfaces for a variety of different sports including field hockey, soccer/rugby and sports hall floors. A good quality sports surface should enable a player to demonstrate and develop their skills, and limit the risk of injury. To ensure surfaces meet these requirements (in part) many sports governing bodies stipulate a series of (impact) tests to assess the surface shock absorption. Current industry standard impact tests have some shortcomings for either routine use and/or for research purposes. In this paper the impact performance requirements of a surface are briefly reviewed, and the four measurement methods explained. The emerging test methods are contrasted to the conventional ones, via a series of comparative data from several programmes of research. The paper concludes that there is a place for both simple 'ranking' tests, suitable for routine use and that are comparable to the more complex sport performance tests, and for a more sophisticated engineering test that is both a suitable substitute for the industry standard methods and that better describes the behaviour of the sports surface under test." |
Language: | English |
References: | 0 |
Note: | This item is an abstract only! |
| ASA/CSSA/SSSA Citation (Crop Science-Like - may be incomplete): Fleming, P., and C. Young. 2006. Sports surfaces - Impact assessment tools. Sports Engineering. 9(3):p. 190. |
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| DOI: 10.1007/BF02844119 |
| Web URL(s): https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2FBF02844119.pdf#page=16 Last checked: 10/05/2017 Requires: PDF Reader Access conditions: Item is within a limited-access website Notes: Item is within a single large file |
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