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Although the athlete is at the center of any sporting activity, sports equipment is an indispensable extension of the body. Equipment is used in every sports discipline, such as racket sports (tennis, squash, table tennis and badminton), team sports (soccer, football, basketball, volleyball and hockey) and water sports (canoe, water ski, diving), to name a few. These sports employ rackets, bicycles, skis, snowboards, face masks, ski tows, clubs, climbing equipment, diving materials, and more. Regardless of how much an athlete trains, the quality of the equipment is a contributing factor in a competitor’s performance. Technology can be extensively employed in equipment design; it can help to make the difference that leads a champion to victory. Engineering simulation solutions from ANSYS have been chosen by leading sports equipment manufacturers to help improve various equipment designs for: While only the most highly optimized equipment designs should be considered for the elite athlete, advanced equipment performance is desired by many average sports enthusiasts as well. Engineering simulation provides a virtual prototyping environment in which a designer can cost-effectively test the performance of equipment in various service and extreme conditions. With an unparalleled breadth of solutions spanning multiple simulation technologies, ANSYS makes it possible to reproduce the complex structural behavior of a given piece of equipment and to consider how it will interact with its surrounding environment, such as air, water or both. With the unequalled depth of capabilities within any single simulation domain, technology from ANSYS lets a designer fine tune equipment performance by accurately modeling complex turbulent flow patterns, possibly using large-eddy simulation (LES) models, multiphase environments with calculation of intricate interface between air and water, nonlinear structural behaviors of complex composite materials involving viscoelastic and hyperelastic models, and advanced electromagnetic fields in electronic devices. Using a combination of these technologies together within a single, unified environment ensures true optimization of the design, manufacturing and testing processes through comprehensive multiphysics. More than ever, the performance of sports equipment can be advanced through Simulation Driven Product Development. Engineering simulation offers designers much-needed in-depth knowledge that can help push sports equipment to a performance limit while helping to prevent failure due to fatigue, excess stress and deformation. The concept, geometry, material and manufacturing processes can all be adjusted to develop the best and most reliable equipment, dramatically cut the cost for large-scale production and significantly reduce product-to-market time. Anyone involved in sports -- from the Olympic athlete to the average enthusiast -- can realize performance improvement and gain pleasure by using equipment designed through engineering simulation. |
Principal stress 1.6 ms after the impact of the ice axe
Detailed geometry of the oar
Golf club impact modelling
Water volume fraction on top of the board surface |
