The Engineering Approach to Winter Sports
Published on 6. October 2015
VIII, 383 pages
978-1-4939-3020-3 (ISBN)
Description
The Engineering Approach to Winter Sports presents the state-of-the-art research in the field of winter sports in a harmonized and comprehensive way for a diverse audience of engineers, equipment and facilities designers, and materials scientists. The book examines the physics and chemistry of snow and ice with particular focus on the interaction (friction) between sports equipment and snow/ice, how it is influenced by environmental factors, such as temperature and pressure, as well as by contaminants and how it can be modified through the use of ski waxes or the microtextures of blades or ski soles. The authors also cover, in turn, the different disciplines in winter sports: skiing (both alpine and cross country), skating and jumping, bob sledding and skeleton, hockey and curling, with attention given to both equipment design and on the simulation of gesture and track optimization.
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Series
Edition
1st ed. 2016
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Springer US
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
VIII, 383 p. 221 illus., 133 illus. in color.
File size
11,63 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-4939-3020-3 (9781493930203)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4939-3020-3
Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Francesco Braghin | Federico Cheli | Stefano Maldifassi
The Engineering Approach to Winter Sports
Book
10/2015
Springer
€171.19
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Content
1.Ice and snow for winter sports.- 2.Friction between ski and snow.- 3.Friction between runner and ice.- 4.Alpine Ski.- 5.Cross-country Ski.- 6.Aerodynamics of Ski Jumping.- 7.Bobsleigh and Skeleton.- 8.Ice Skating.- 9.Ice Hockey Skate, Stick Design and Performance Measures.- 10.Curling.- 11.Why did we lose? Towards an integrated approach to Winter Sports Science.
