Performance assessment of wood, metal and composite baseball bats

Composite Structures

Volumn 52, Issue 3-4, 2001, Pages 397-404

  Shenoy, Mahesh M ^a   Smith, Lloyd V ^a   Axtell, John T ^a  

^a Washington State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Baseball; Bat; Coefficient of restitution; Composite handle

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; IMPACT TESTING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SPORTING GOODS; VISCOELASTICITY; WOOD;

BASEBALL BATS; COEFFICIENT OF RESTITUTION;

COMPOSITE STRUCTURES;

COMPOSITES; SPORTS EQUIPMENT; WOOD PRODUCTS;

COMPOSITE; REINFORCEMENT; SPORTS GOODS; TESTING; VISCOELASTICITY;

EID: 0035339261     PISSN: 02638223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0263-8223(01)00030-7     Document Type: Article

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