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Measurement of strain and strain rate during the impact of tennis ball cores

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posted on 2018-03-15, 10:08 authored by Ben Lane, Paul SherrattPaul Sherratt, Xiao Hu, Andy HarlandAndy Harland
The aim of this investigation was to establish the strains and strain rates experienced by tennis ball cores during impact to inform material characterisation testing and finite element modelling. Three-dimensional surface strains and strain rates were measured using two high-speed video cameras and corresponding digital image correlation software (GOM Correlate Professional). The results suggest that material characterisation testing to a maximum strain of 0.4 and a maximum rate of 500 s-1 in tension and to a maximum strain of -0.4 and a maximum rate of -800 s-1 in compression would encapsulate the demands placed on the material during impact and, in turn, define the range of properties required to encapsulate the behavior of the material during impact, enabling testing to be application-specific and strain-rate-dependent properties to be established and incorporated in finite element models.

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  • Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences

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Applied Sciences (Bucureşti)

Volume

8

Issue

3

Citation

LANE, B. ...et al., 2018. Measurement of strain and strain rate during the impact of tennis ball cores. Applied Sciences (Bucureşti), 8(3), 371.

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© The Authors. Published by MDPI.

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ by/4.0/

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2018-03-01

Publication date

2018-03-04

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This is an Open Access Article. It is published by MDPI under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported Licence (CC BY). Full details of this licence are available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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1454-5101

Language

  • en

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