The Engineering Approach to Winter Sports
The Engineering Approach to Winter Sports

Author: Francesco Braghin

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-10-06

Total Pages: 387

ISBN-13: 1493930206

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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.

Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Vibration Problems
Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Vibration Problems

Author: Evangelos J. Sapountzakis

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-12-23

Total Pages: 1203

ISBN-13: 9811580499

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This book presents the select proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Vibration Problems (ICOVP 2019) held in Crete, Greece. The volume brings together contributions from researchers working on vibration related problems in a wide variety of engineering disciplines such as mechanical engineering, wind and earthquake engineering, nuclear engineering, aeronautics, robotics, and transport systems. The focus is on latest developments and cutting-edge methods in wave mechanics and vibrations, and includes theoretical, experimental, as well as applied studies. The range of topics and the up-to-date results covered in this volume make this interesting for students, researchers, and professionals alike.

Winter Games Pitches
Winter Games Pitches

Author: R. D. C. Evans

Publisher: STRI

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 9781873431030

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Covering the establishment and care of grass for a wide variety of sports such as association football, rugby, hockey, lacrosse, the Gaelic games, American football and including facilities such as polo grounds, this work provides a comprehensive treatment of the subject. Divided into nine sections, a detailed introduction to the sports to be catered for is followed by sections on: pitch construction and design; sands for construction and top dressing; frost protection and soil warming; grasses for winter pitches; maintenance machinery; fertilizers for pitches; weeds, pests and diseases; and end of season renovation.

Game Plan
Game Plan

Author: Karen L. Wall

Publisher: University of Alberta

Published: 2012-10-19

Total Pages: 553

ISBN-13: 0888647808

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How deep is the importance and influence of organized sports in Alberta? Discover key episodes and players in the history of Alberta's organized sports and read how sport shaped the lives of individuals as well as of communities of indigenous people, settlers, and immigrants. Read new perspectives on well-known sports stories along with tales of lesser-known games that remained on the margins of most histories for reasons of race, class, and gender. Whether a spectator, supporter, scholar, or fan, readers will be informed and delighted by the research contained in this sport history.

The Engineering of Sport 6
The Engineering of Sport 6

Author: Eckehard Moritz

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2010-04-26

Total Pages: 467

ISBN-13: 0387459510

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This proceedings volume of the ISEA 2006 examines sports engineering, an interdisciplinary subject which encompasses and integrates not only sports science and engineering but also biomechanics, physiology and anatomy, and motion physics. This is the first title of its kind in the emerging field of sports technology.