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Title: The Trampoline Effect: What is it all about?


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The Trampoline EffectWhat is it all about?
Alan M. Nathan Department of Physics University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign a-nathan_at_uiuc.edu
www.npl.uiuc.edu/a-nathan/pob
SGMA Meeting Dallas TX October, 2003
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But first a digression...
  • Last year at SGMA meeting, I gave a talk
    advocating use of batted ball speed (BBS) rather
    than bat-ball COR (or BPF) as a performance
    metric
  • With a year to think about it, here is an update

3
  • Take bat of given shell
  • Adjust weights on ends to adjust MOI with
    weight28 oz
  • Do computer simulation to get BBCOR and BBS
  • BBS calculated using ASA formula

Conclusion BBS a more robust metric than BPF
4
The Ball-Bat Collision
  • forces large (gt8000 lbs!)
  • time is short (lt1/1000 sec!)
  • ball compresses, stops, expands
  • bat compresses ball
  • ball bends/compresses bat
  • lots of energy dissipated
  • distortion of ball
  • vibrations in bat
  • ball-bat COR related to energy dissipation

5
high-speed video of collision
These movies are owned by CE Composites Baseball
(combatbaseball.com), designers and manufacturers
of composite baseball bats, Ottawa, Ontario,
Canada, and are shown here with their permission.
6
The Trampoline Effect A Simple Physical
Picture
  • Two springs mutually compress each other
  • Energy of motion ? Compressional energy
  • Energy shared between ball spring and
  • bat spring
  • Energy stored in ball mostly dissipated (80!)
  • Energy stored in bat mostly restored
  • Net effect less overall energy dissipated
  • ...and therefore higher ball-bat COR

demo
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Trampoline Effect
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The Trampoline EffectIn Words
  • Fraction of energy restored
  • (Fraction of initial energy stored in ball)
  • x (Fraction of stored energy returned)
  • (Fraction of initial energy stored in bat)
  • x (Fraction of stored energy returned)

9
The Trampoline EffectIn symbols
  • kbat, kball measures stiffness of bat, ball
  • ...sometimes called compression
  • kbat/kball (0 - ?)
  • (energy stored in ball)/(energy stored in bat)

Assumes no energy loss in bat
10
The Trampoline Effect
  • This model is ...
  • very simple to understand
  • captures most of essential physics
  • qualitatively explains much of the data

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The Trampoline Effect
Example 1 typical wood bat kbat/kballgtgt1
little energy stored in bat ? e ? eball
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The Trampoline Effect
demo
Example 2 the ideal situation (happy/sad ball
on bongo paddle) kbat/kball ltlt 1 most of energy
stored in bat ? e ? 1, independent of eball
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The Trampoline Effect
Example 3 single-wall Aluminum bat kbat/kball ?
7 15 of energy stored in bat ? e 0.6,
BPF ? e/eball 1.20
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The Trampoline Effect
Example 4 high-performance bat kbat/kball ?
2 33 of energy stored in bat ? e 0.75,
BPF ? e/eball 1.50
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Note The BPF is not a ball-independent
quantity It depends on the COR of the ball
(eball)
  • BPF decreases as eball increases
  • effect greater when kbat/kball smaller (high
    performance)

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More Realistic Calculation
More from Dan Russell later
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The Trampoline EffectA Closer Look
  • Bending Modes vs. Hoop Modes

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The Trampoline EffectA Closer Look
  • Single-Wall vs. Double-Wall

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Ball-Bat COR
  • Depends on ball COR
  • which depends on vrel vball vbat
  • Depends on BPF (BBCOR/ball COR)
  • which depends on
  • impact location
  • ball COR
  • which depends on vrel
  • more for high- than low-performance bats
  • ball compression (kball)
  • which may depend on vrel
  • more for high- than low-performance bats

20
An Indirect Performance Metric
  • Low-speed collision of hard steel ball with
    barrel of bat
  • As kbat gets smaller...
  • BBCOR gets larger
  • collision time gets longer
  • Basis for USGA pendulum test
  • see Dan Russells talk

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Summary of Important Points
  • The essential physics behind the trampoline
    effect is understood
  • The bat is probably well understood
  • Equally important is the ball, which is less well
    understood
  • but we are making progress
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