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Landing impact analysis of sports shoes using 3-D coupled foot-shoe finite element model

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The rapid spread of various sports games has changed the role of shoes from the simple protection of human feet to more advanced ones like competency improvement. Accordingly, intensive research efforts are being focused on the development of high-competency sports shoes by taking kinesiology and biomechanics into consideration. However, the success of this goal depends definitely on the reliable evaluation of the main functions required for sports shoes. As the first part of our study on the landing impact analysis of court sports shoes, this paper introduces a coupled foot-shoe finite element model in order to fully reflect the mutual interaction between the foot and the shoe, not relying on traditional independent field experiments any more. Through illustrative numerical experiments, we assess the reliability of the proposed coupled FEM model by comparing with the experimental results and investigating the fundamental landing impact characteristics of sports shoes.

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  1. School of Mechanical Engineering, Pusan National University, Busan, 609-735, Korea

    Jin-Rae Cho, Sung-Hyun Ryu, Sung-Ho Kim & Shi-Bok Lee

  2. Research Institute of Midas Information Technology Co. Ltd., Gyeonggi-Do, 462-807, Korea

    Jin-Rae Cho

  3. Busan Economic Promotion Agency, Footwear Industrial Promotion Center, Busan, 618-820, Korea

    Seung-Bum Park

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This paper was recommended for publication in revised form by Associate Editor Young Eun Kim

Jin-Rae Cho received his B.S. degree in Aeronautical Engineering from Seoul National University in 1983. He then received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from University of Texas at Austin in 1993 and 1995, respectively. He served as an Editor of KSME International Journal and Journal of Mechanical Science and Technology. Dr. Cho is currently a vice director of the Research Institute of Midas IT Co. Ltd. Dr. Cho’s current research interests include computational tire mechanics, fluid-structure interaction, functionally graded materials, footwear biomechanics, and nonlinear finite element programming.

Seung-Bum Park received his B.S. degree in Phsical Education from Pusan National University, Korea, in 1993. He obtained his M.S. and Ph.D in biomechanics from the Pusan National University. Dr. Park is a head of Footwear Biomechanics Team in the Footwear Industrial Promotion Center in Busan, South Korea, while serving as an Executive Board Member of International Footwear Biomechanics Group. His role at the institute is to support Korean footwear industry by collaborating with universities, corporations and other research institutes in the field of footwear biomechanics. His research is focusing specifically on the footwear design not only for providing benefits in biomechanical factors (i.e. muscle activation and joint loading) but for improving the safety and athletic performances related to lower limb biomechanics and neuromuscular response.

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Cho, JR., Park, SB., Ryu, SH. et al. Landing impact analysis of sports shoes using 3-D coupled foot-shoe finite element model. J Mech Sci Technol 23, 2583–2591 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12206-009-0801-x

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