Host: The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Name : [in Japanese]
Date : November 09, 2016 - November 11, 2016
Curling is one of the winter sports called chess on ice. Athletes are required high level skill and smart strategy. This paper deals with curling phenomenon of rotation stone on the ice.To Understand this phenomenon, polypropylene and Teflon sheet makes low friction environment, and curling stone experiment was carried out. Then curling stone phenomenon was reproduced on force plate instead of ice.