Finite Element Analysis for the Landing Impact Evaluation of Court Sport Shoes

코트 스포츠화의 착지충격 평가를 위한 유한요소 해석

Court sport shoes is consisted of several functional parts such as soles, upper and midfoot reinforcements. Currently, intensive research for court sport shoes considering functional parts is in progress world widely, but the shoes design relies only on the view point of kinesilogy and biomechanics until now. Thus, more scientific and reliable evaluation of shoes characteristics is definitely required. In this paper, we evaluate the landing impact of court sport shoes by using finite element method. We construct a shoes-leg coupled FEM model which can simulate effectively impact in running mode. From the numerical analysis results, the designer can establish the advanced design concepts and build up the detailed design standard for the specific court sport shoes under consideration.