Sports Research for improved performance
The Sheffield Hallam University’s Centre for Sports Engineering Research has a compelling array of different resources available for improved performance through close analysis of real data. e.g.
1. Environmental chamber
The British Olympic Association (BOA) approved chamber simulates the climate of almost any country in the world. Temperatures can reach +40 degrees Celsius and -20 degrees Celsius, with humidity between one and 99 per cent. The chamber can be used to
- test clothing tolerance under different climatic conditions
- test the influence of climatic conditions on the performance of sports equipment
- study the effects of enduring extreme environments on sports people
- look at the effects of temperature on work-related tasks in the occupational setting
2. Computing Facilities
- high performance computing cluster, SGI Altix, eight compute nodes, 64 cores, 128GB RAM
- dedicated computational fluid dynamics (CFD) workstation (ANSYS Fluent solver, Ensight post-processing)
- computer aided engineering workstations (Pro/E, ANSYS LS Dyna, Geomagic Studio, Rhino)
- Matlab and LabView software for developing custom data collection and analysis protocols for specialist projects
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