The Engineering Approach to Winter Sports

Francesco Braghin, Federico Cheli, Stefano Maldifassi, Stefano Melzi, Edoardo Sabbioni (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

383 Seiten

2015 | 1st ed. 2016
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
978-1-4939-3019-7 (ISBN)

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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.

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.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	7.10.2015
Zusatzinfo	VIII, 383 p.
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Ski- / Wintersport
	Naturwissenschaften ► Chemie ► Physikalische Chemie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Angewandte Physik
	Technik ► Maschinenbau
Schlagworte	Chemistry of Snow and Ice • Microtextures of Blades • Simulation of Gesture • Ski Waxes • Sport Equipment Design • Surface Properties of Ski Sole • Track Optimization • Winter Sports
ISBN-10	1-4939-3019-2 / 1493930192
ISBN-13	978-1-4939-3019-7 / 9781493930197
Zustand	Neuware