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Jumping and hopping motion on sports surfaces – Energetic aspects vs. risk of injury
Author(s) -
Körner Claudia,
Seemann Wolfgang
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
pamm
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1617-7061
DOI - 10.1002/pamm.201110154
Subject(s) - jumping , athletes , bernoulli's principle , foundation (evidence) , motion (physics) , simulation , computer science , engineering , aerospace engineering , medicine , physical therapy , artificial intelligence , political science , law , physiology
The aim in high‐performance sports activities is reaching the optimum between high efficiency and low risk of injuries during workout. The goal of this contribution is to increase the understanding of these two facts while interaction between athletes and sports surfaces. A typical movement in sports activities is human hopping. Several studies on this topic have already been done, but to the best of our knowledge any of them uses a continuous model of the sports surface. Therefore, an Euler‐Bernoulli beam with visco‐elastic foundation is analysed. The human modelling is represented by a one‐dof‐oscillator. (© 2011 Wiley‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)