Design of a force acquisition system for high-energy short-duration impacts

摘要

This paper describes a novel force acquisition system capable of measuring theudforce profiles of high-energy short-duration impacts. This force acquisition system was used toudtest dynamically a cricket leg guard and to create a contour map of the peak transmitted forcesudacross the garment’s surface. The cricket leg guard was found to provide most protection inudthe central shin and knee regions, areas most likely to be impacted normally and so to receiveudthe highest-energy impacts. The use of this system will enable a dynamic test procedure to beuddeveloped to mimic impact conditions encountered during a game, allowing optimization ofudcricket pad designs for specific impacts.