ANALYSIS OF NONCONFORMING COEFFICIENTS OF RESTITUTION IN GOLF DRIVERS USING A FINITE ELEMENT

APPROACH

Engineering Project by: Brian Hill

Main Advisor: Ernesto Gutierrez-Miravete

Co-Advisor: Ken Brown

Second Progress Report

Goals

Investigate the effect clubface thickness has on COR.

Investigate the effect swing speed at impact has on COR.

Use USGA COR test method as a basis to create a suitable ANSYS FE model.

Plot comparative results of COR vs. face thickness at different swing speeds.

ANSYS Modeling Properties

2-d model of representative clubface and 3 piece golf ball with axisymmetry

Ball modeled as concentric semicircles and plate modeled as rectangles.

LS-DYNA explicit 2-d solid 162 elements– Quads only, 2d – Plastic kinematic properties for titanium plate– Impact could be close to yield stress at small face thicknesses

Mooney-Rivlin hyper-elastic properties for ball– Core, Mantle, and Cover of 3 piece ball modeled using material

properties from previous articles. SI units used

Titanium Plate Geometry

LS-DYNA Analysis Options

Nodal component created for the ball Initial velocity placed in –y direction on nodal

component Contact definition: “2d Surface to Surface” contact in

lieu of “automatic” Contact time defined as .005 seconds Output ASCII file matsum for averaged nodal

velocities for each part (core, cover, mantle, plate) Mass taken from d3hsp file - automatically produced

MmmMVVe

in

out

Axisymmetric Model Cross Section

Areas Defined

Mesh Created

Materials Defined

Expanded Axisymmetric Model

Analysis Runs

VycftVy

cftVycft

-110

0.1375

-100

0.1375

-90

0.1375

0.1250 0.1250 0.1250

0.1125 0.1125 0.1125

0.1000 0.1000 0.1000

0.0875 0.0875 0.0875

0.0750 0.0750 0.0750

Impact Video – Element Displacement

Impact Video – Velocity Solution

Velocity Results

Final Velocity vs. Clubface Thickness for Different Swing Speeds

0.0

10.0

20.0

30.0

40.0

50.0

60.0

70.0

0.05 0.075 0.1 0.125 0.15

Clubface Thickness (inches)

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110 MPH Swing Speed

100 MPH Swing Speed

90 MPH Swing Speed

COR Results

COR vs. Clubface Thickness for Different Swing Speeds

0.920

0.930

0.940

0.950

0.960

0.970

0.980

0.05 0.075 0.1 0.125 0.15

Clubface Thickness (inches)

CO

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110 MPH Swing Speed

100 MPH Swing Speed

90 MPH Swing Speed

References:

K. Tanaka et al., Construction of the finite-element models of golf balls and simulations of their collisions, Proc. of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part L: J of Materials: Design and Applications 220 (1) (2006), pp. 13–22.

Petersen, Willem et al., Shape optimization of golf clubface using finite element impact models, International Sports Engineering Organization, December 2009

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