The engineering approach to winter sports /

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Imprint:New York : Springer, 2016.
©2016
Description:1 online resource
Language:English
Subject:Winter sports.
GAMES -- Gambling -- Sports.
SPORTS & RECREATION -- Business Aspects.
SPORTS & RECREATION -- Essays.
SPORTS & RECREATION -- History.
SPORTS & RECREATION -- Reference.
TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Sports.
Testing of materials.
Biophysics.
Physical chemistry.
Materials science.
Technical design.
Winter sports.
Electronic books.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11248677
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Other authors / contributors:Braghin, Francesco, editor.
Cheli, Federico, editor.
Maldifassi, Stefano, editor.
Melzi, Stefano, editor.
Sabbioni, Edoardo, editor.
ISBN:9781493930203
1493930206
9781493930197
1493930192
Digital file characteristics:text file
PDF
Notes:English.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 13, 2015).
Summary: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.
Other form:Print version: Engineering approach to winter sports. New York : Springer, 2016 1493930192 9781493930197
Standard no.:10.1007/978-1-4939-3020-3