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| Publication Type:
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| Author(s): | van Wijk, A. L. M.;
Wageningen, J. Beuving |
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| Title: | Relation between playability and some soil physical aspects of the top layer of grass sportsfields |
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| Source: | Rasen-Turf-Gazon. Vol. 6, No. 3, October 1975, p. 77-83. |
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| Publishing Information: | Bonn-Bad Godesberg, Hortus Verlag |
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| Keywords: | TIC Keywords: Drainage; Soil layering; Soil profiles; Density; Topdressings
Dutch Turfgrass Research Foundation Keywords: 408-C; Sports grounds; Soil physics; Bearing characteristics; Playability; Article
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| Abstract/Contents: | SUMMARY: "On seven grass sportsfields with a sandy toplayer, differing with regard to profile and drainage, during the winters 2972/73 and 1973/74 an investigation was made to derive a reproducable criterion for playability and to determine the soil physical properties affecting firmness or bearing capacity and their influence on playability. A penetrometer proved to be a useful instrument to estimate quickly and objectively the playability of grass sportsfields. It was found that for football purposes a penetration resistance is required of at least 14 kg, respectively 10 kg per mc2, (penetrometer cone: 1 cm2) on intensively respectively moderate intensively played parts of the field. A survey of the dependability of grass sportsfields was made by observations of the penetration resistance over a long period. The playability, as far as depending on bearing capacity or penetration resistance, is determined by the soil water pressure head and the bulk density of the toplayer. This head ranges during winter on sand covered clay profiles and sandy profiles mainly between the boundaries -20 to -50 respectively -40 to -70 cm water column. Within this range of soil water pressure heads -70 cm water column. Within this range of soil water pressure heads an increase of bulk density by dressing with sand or, when sufficiently high sand contents in the toplayer are present, by compacting by means of rolling appeared to be the most suitalbe measure to improve the bearing capacity of grass sportsfields in winter. With regard to sward density it can be stated that the requirements for a continuously well playable field and for a dense sward on the more intensively played parts of the field are controversial aims." |
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| Language: | English |
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| References: | 4 |
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| Note: | Summary as abstract.
Summary appears in German and English |
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| ASA/CSSA/SSSA Citation (Crop Science-Like - may be incomplete):
van Wijk, A. L. M., and J. B. Wageningen. 1975. Relation between playability and some soil physical aspects of the top layer of grass sportsfields. Rasen Turf Gazon. 6(3):p. 77-83. |
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