Physical Testing of Potential Football Helmet Design Enhancements

<p>Football is a much loved sport in the United States. Unfortunately, it is also hard on the players and puts them at very high risk of concussion. To combat this an inventor in Santa Barbara brought a new design to Cal Poly to be tested.</p> <p>The design was tested in small scale first in order to make some preliminary conclusions about the design. In order to fully test the helmet design; however, full scale testing was required. In order to carry out this testing a drop tower was built based on National Operating Committee on Standards for Athletic Equipment, NOCSAE, specification. The drop tower designed for Cal Poly is a lower cost and highly portable version of the standard NOCSAE design. Using this drop tower and a 3D printed prototype the new design was tested in full scale.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

MS in Mechanical Engineering

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Mechanical Engineering

Year dc:date.available

2016

Author dc:creator

• Schuster, Michael Jeremy

Contributors dc:contributor

• Peter J. Schuster

• Football
• Helmet
• Testing
• NOCSAE
• Impact
• Drop Tower
• Acoustics, Dynamics, and Controls
• Applied Mechanics
• Biomechanics
• Computer-Aided Engineering and Design
• Electro-Mechanical Systems

Identifier

10.15368/theses.2016.68

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digitalcommons.calpoly.edu:theses-2763