HIGH-LOADING ABSORPTION CHARACTERISTICS OF NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL TURFS

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  • Hiroyuki Nunome
  • Koichiro Inoue
  • Yasuo Ikegami

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The present study was designed to illustrate shock attenuation characteristics of natural turf as a target property for long pile artificial turf (3-g turf) and to compare the property with that of existing 3-g turf systems. A recently proposed new high loading test was conducted to detect the initial state of shock attenuation property of natural turfs with two different bases (sod and sand base) and of 3-g turfs with three different infills (sand, rubber and sand/rubber). Clear differences between these turfs were observed as the natural turfs are having a higher impact damping and a larger hysteresis with plastic surface deformation. Those features would be beneficial in lowering a high load imparted to the human body but might limit player’s performance.

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2014-10-03

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32 International Conference of Biomechanics in Sports (2014)

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Injuries / Rehabilitation

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Authors can retain copyright, while granting the International Society of Biomechanics in Sports (ISBS) the right of first publication.