Development of a Novel Portable Test Device to Measure the Tribological Behaviour of Shoe Interactions with Tennis Courts

Urà, Daniel; Carré, Matt

doi:10.1016/j.proeng.2016.06.237

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“…The manufacturer's specified values for the rubber's shore hardness (71, Shore A), tensile strength (14 MPa), and elongation at break (385%) are all consistent with the rubber used in a typical tennis shoe. 13 The area ratio is defined as the hole area within the contact area divided by the contact area plus hole area. Figure 4 shows a typical patch of contact area and offers a visualization of how the area ratio is defined.…”

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“…Testing took place using the bespoke portable prototype rig (PPR), developed and fully described elsewhere. 13 The PPR was a smaller, more portable version of an earlier rig. 14 Annotated photographs of the experimental setup are shown in Figure 2.…”

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“…The manufacturer’s specified values for the rubber’s shore hardness (71, Shore A), tensile strength (14 MPa), and elongation at break (385%) are all consistent with the rubber used in a typical tennis shoe. 13…”

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Critical shoe contact area ratio for sliding on a tennis hard court

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Dimples have been used in the design of some modern tennis shoe outsoles to enhance sliding ability on hard courts. Experiments were performed with bespoke rubber samples possessing various numbers of holes, which served to simulate dimples in tennis shoe treads, the aim being to assess the effect of contact area on sliding friction. It was found that as the ratio of holes to solid rubber increases, a critical ratio is reached whereby the static friction coefficient drops by more than 11% for tread-to-court pressures comparable to real tennis play. Though experiments reported here concern bespoke rubber samples, shoe manufacturers should be interested in the appearance of a critical dimple ratio that could aid them in the creation of tennis shoes suited for sliding on hard courts.

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Critical shoe contact area ratio for sliding on a tennis hard court

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“…Sliding movements have been shown to improve shot return efficiency as they allow quicker repositioning post-shot [11], as well as potentially reducing injury rates by decreasing the peak load impulses which are experienced by the player's lower extremity joints [7]. Though a common movement on clay courts, slides have also been performed by some professional players on hard courts [12]. Hard court surfaces (acrylic) are constructed from a sand-paint mixture that provides a high friction dryrough topography.…”

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Effect of simulated tennis steps and slides on tread element friction and wear

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In hard court tennis, players change direction by either stepping or sliding. The shoe–surface friction during these movements is crucial to player performance. Too little friction when stepping may result in a slip. Too much friction when attempting to slide could cause the player to move only a short distance, or to fail to slide. To understand the influence of tread design on shoe–surface friction in tennis, experiments were performed on individual shoe tread elements that replicated the tribological conditions typically experienced during hard court step and slide movements. Tread element orientation had no effect on the static friction in step movements, but longer tread elements (in the sliding direction) had 9% lower dynamic friction during slide movements (p < 0.001). The friction between tennis shoe tread and hard court tennis surfaces is also shown to be influenced by the tread’s sliding history, and the wearing pattern that forms on the surface of the rubber.

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“…Obtaining biomechanical information regarding injury scenarios is important (Bahr, R. & Krosshaug, 2005) yet ethically difficult due to its injurious nature (Krosshaug et al, 2005). The biomechanics of sports injury scenarios have informed the development of a variety of mechanical test devices (Grund, Senner and Grube, 2007;Laing and Robinovitch, 2008;Ura and Carré, 2016).…”

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Development of methods to evaluate the performance of snowboard wrist protectors

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Development of a Novel Portable Test Device to Measure the Tribological Behaviour of Shoe Interactions with Tennis Courts

Cited by 8 publications

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Critical shoe contact area ratio for sliding on a tennis hard court

Critical shoe contact area ratio for sliding on a tennis hard court

Effect of simulated tennis steps and slides on tread element friction and wear

Development of methods to evaluate the performance of snowboard wrist protectors

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