Auxetic Materials for Sports Impact Protection
This project is focussed on developing new and improved impact protection materials and is part of a wider collaboration with the Centre for Sports Engineering Research and also Manchester Metropolitan University. A process to produce large area or volume isotropic, anisotropic and gradient one-piece auxetic foams is being developed, foams produced and characterised for their mechanical and impact response properties. Significant reductions in peak acceleration are being found for the auxetic foams relative to their conventional counterparts.
Elysa Ioannou
Elysa is a PhD student within the Sports Engineering Research Group
Design
Sheffield Hallam University's product and packaging design consultancy group, Design Futures, has proved its commercial focus time and again
Leona Brayne
Leona is a PhD student within CSER researching the assessment of dynamic balance using the Smartfloor, with the intention of investigating the importance of dynamic balance in elite level sports.
Said Ibeggazene
Staff profile for Said Ibeggazene, Clinical Science Research Fellow at Sheffield Hallam University
Helen Quirk
Staff profile for Helen Quirk, Researcher in Exercise Psychology
Mahaa Irshad
I am a Computer Science Research Fellow at the School of Sport and Physical Activity
Will Dawber
Will is a PhD student within the Sports Engineering Research Group
John Hart
Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Sports Engineering Research (CSER), specialising in computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and reverse engineering.