Recrystallization and damage of ice in winter sports
- Submitting institution
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London South Bank University
- Unit of assessment
- 12 - Engineering
- Output identifier
- 164414
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1098/rsta.2015.0353
- Title of journal
- Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
- Article number
- -
- First page
- 1
- Volume
- 375
- Issue
- 2086
- ISSN
- 1364-503X
- Open access status
- Compliant
- Month of publication
- February
- Year of publication
- 2017
- URL
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https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsta.2015.0353
- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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2
- Research group(s)
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A - The BioEngineering Research Centre
- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- This work is an outcome from a PhD Studentship funded by UK Sport. A parallel outcome from the project was a new set of sledge runner designs which were manufactured and used at the Sochi Olympics in 2014. The paper outlines how ice fracture is a significant energy sink in the sport of Skeleton. New experimental observations from the cold room are shown to match track observations at competitions. This insight led us to redesign Team GB Skeleton runners with less stress-concentrating geometry, so that less energy is lost to ice fracture.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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