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Artificial grass: a conceptual model for degradation in performance

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posted on 2015-04-13, 15:23 authored by Nicholas J. McLaren, Paul FlemingPaul Fleming, Steph ForresterSteph Forrester
Artificial grass pitches (AGPs), with long fibres and sand and rubber infill, have seen growth within many sports at both professional and community levels. Academic research has tended to focus on athleticism, injuries and the development of equipment and test standards, while research and development for the turf, infill and shockpad layers has generally been undertaken by the manufacturers. This has led to an under researching and / or reporting of the factors influencing AGP degradation and the subsequent effects on pitch performance. Long term testing has shown that as rubber filled AGPs age their performance worsens; they generally become harder and play faster with ball roll often reported as one of the first standards to be affected. This paper presents a hypothesised model to describe the numerous factors causing degradation and their effects on performance. It is designed as a useful tool for research aimed at assessing and improving current maintenance operations which will ultimately lead to increasing the useful life of AGPs.

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School

  • Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering

Published in

9th Conference of the International-Sports-Engineering-Association (ISEA) ENGINEERING OF SPORT CONFERENCE 2012

Volume

34

Pages

831 - 836 (6)

Citation

MCLAREN, N., FLEMING, P. and FORRESTER, S., 2012. Artificial grass: a conceptual model for degradation in performance. Procedia Engineering, 34, pp. 831 - 836.

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© Elsevier Ltd

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  • VoR (Version of Record)

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/

Publication date

2012

Notes

This conference paper was published in a special issue of the journal Procedia Engineering. The issue comprises the Proceedings of the 9th Conference of the International Sports Engineering Association held at The University of Massachusetts, Lowell on the 9th-13th July 2012. It is published by Elsevier as Open Access under a CC-BY-NC-ND 3.0 licence.

ISSN

1877-7058

Language

  • en

Location

Univ Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA

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