36315 - Design and Development of Sports Equipment

Academic Year 2024/2025

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Sciences and Techniques of Sports Activities (cod. 9069)

Learning outcomes

A survey of available technologies for testing of the elite athlete, rehabilitation, design of sport gears in an industrial context.Simulation tools and advanced technologies (AI, machine learning).

Course contents

1.Design introduzione

2. Materiali e performance nel tennis

3. Design e sicurezza nello sci

4. Psicologia per il design e la sicurezza.

5 .Caratterizzazione biomeccanica delle calzalture da corsa.

6. Fitting ciclista/biciletta

7. Superfici di gioco e infortuni

8. Dispositivi di sicurezza nello sport

9. Caratterizzazione dei materiali: progettazione e testing.

10. Analisi di mercato e marketing.

11. Le strutture sportive nei mega eventi: progettazione, impatto ambientale, aspetti politici e economici dei mega eventi. Il caso delle olimpiadi di Londra, Beijing, Sochi e Tokio.

12. Materiali e performance nel tennis.

13. Software per la progettazione ; ANYS, JACK, Realta' Virtuale, applicazioni AI , Machine and Deep Learning.

Readings/Bibliography

Sport Aerodynamics, AlmaRe, ProQuest:

https://ebookcentral-proquest-com.ezproxy.unibo.it/lib/unibo/reader.action?docID=450822&query=sport+aerodynamics.

The Impact of Technology on Sport VI' 7th Asia-Pacific Congress on Sports Technology, APCST2015:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/procedia-engineering/vol/112/suppl/C

https://www.ansys.com/campaigns/sports-industry-webcast-series

Shishoo (ed.). Textile in Sport. Woodhead Publishing 2005

Fuss, Subic, Strangwood and Metha (Editors): Routledge Handbook of Sports Technology and Engineering. Routledge 2013

Friederick, Sport Shoes and playing surfaces. Human Kinetics 1984

Lebed, Complex sport analytics, Routledge 2013

Schumaker et al. Sports data mining. Springer 2010

Shishoo R. ed. Textiles for sportswear. Woodhead Publishing 2015

Cicchella A. Analisi del Movimento, Ed. Martina 2003.

Teaching methods

class

Assessment methods

Oral exam.

Teaching tools

Slides are available on line.

Office hours

See the website of Antonio Cicchella

SDGs

Good health and well-being Industry, innovation and infrastructure

This teaching activity contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.