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Loughborough University Shielding sportsmen and women from impact and injury
Posted on 16/07/08
Tae Kwon Do masters and international cricketers are working with Loughborough University to create the next generation of high-tech customised sports Personal Protective Equipment (PPE).
Experts from the Universitys Rapid Manufacturing Research Group and the Sports Technology Institute are investigating SCUTA a unique customised sports body armour that will protect wearers from heavy blows and ball strikes. The 2 million project is being funded by the Universitys Innovative Manufacturing and Construction Research Centre (IMCRC), with a 1 million contribution from industry partners.
SCUTA Latin for a type of shield uses tailored energy absorbing structures to form a protective, yet flexible, layer around key areas of the body where injuries through sport are likely. To create the perfect customised fit, the research team are working to import body scan data, which is then used as the basis to Rapid Manufacture protective clothing that fits like a second skin.
Research associate Ruth Goodridge works on the latest prototype of SCUTA.
As well as preventing injuries, it is anticipated the new PPE will help improve performance by giving sportsmen and women a lightweight and flexible alternative to existing, more cumbersome, protective clothing.
The research team are also investigating whether the unique design of SCUTA could be developed for high-impact ballistic body armour in the future. This would provide the police and armed forces with more practical protective clothing, which because of its design, would be easier to wear and operate in.
Professor Richard Hague, who is based in the Universitys Wolfson School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, is leading the project. He said: This is an exciting project which has the potential to revolutionise the way sportsmen and women are protected from impact.
Rapid Manufacturing has opened up amazing opportunities and has already led to massive developments in design and manufacturing capabilities. At Loughborough we want to utilise these capabilities to create a made-to-measure product that will not only prevent injuries but also aid performance, which at elite level sport is of vital importance.
Our partnerships with leading sporting bodies gives us access to real sportsmen and women to ensure SCUTA can tackle problems with existing sports body armour, such as fit, flexibility and, above all, protection.
Dr Guy Jackson, who is manager of the National Cricket Performance Centre based on the Loughborough campus, represents the England and Wales Cricket Boards involvement in the project. He said: ECB are collaborating in a number of projects with sports engineers at Loughborough University and are very interested in the potential of SCUTA, particularly in terms of increasing the effectiveness of key types of protective clothing. This is highly topical in cricket right now.
For the next phase of SCUTAs development, the research team will undertake detailed biomechanical analysis of athletes in action, to examine how their bodies move and investigate what happens to the body during impact. This will enable them to not only ensure that SCUTA moves with the body, but that it also effectively dissipates force across the body to reduce impact.
The research team includes experts in the Universitys Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, who will fit electronic sensors to SCUTA. This will enable the level of impact to be monitored, as well as aid scoring in sports such as Tae Kwon Do and provide an extra tool for referees and umpires in a variety of other sports.
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