Towards a footwear design tool: Influence of shoe midsole properties and ground stiffness on the impact force during running

Journal of Biomechanics

Volumn 43, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 310-317

  Ly, Quoc Hung ^a,b   Alaoui, Amina ^b   Erlicher, Silvano ^b   Baly, Laurent ^a  

^a Department of Movement Sciences   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS EST   (France)

Author keywords

Dynamic model; Footwear design; Ground stiffness; Midsoles dynamic properties; Running impact force

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC PROPERTY; FOOTWEAR DESIGN; GROUND STIFFNESS; IMPACT FORCE; MIDSOLES;

DAMPING; DYNAMIC MODELS; SHOE MANUFACTURE; STIFFNESS;

DESIGN;

ARTICLE; BIOMECHANICS; BIOPHYSICAL EQUIPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FOOT SOLE; GROUND REACTION FORCE; LOAD CARRYING CAPACITY; MATERIALS TESTING; MECHANICAL STRESS; MECHANICAL TORSION; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RUNNING; SHOE; SURFACE PROPERTY; VISCOELASTICITY;

ACCELERATION; BIOMECHANICS; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; ELASTICITY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RUNNING; SHOES; VISCOSITY;

EID: 72249084744     PISSN: 00219290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbiomech.2009.08.029     Document Type: Article

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