Protective headgear for sports
T.E. Gould; S.G. Piland; D.E. Krzeminski; J.W. Rawlins University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, MS, USA
Abstract
Participation in contact sports across all levels carries a risk of sustaining a head injury through an impact event. As part of the protective “garment,” sports headgear serves to mitigate the deleterious effects of these head collisions. However, performance requirements for sports headgear vary due to a myriad of expected service-life conditions. As such, polymeric materials must provide the essential properties for processing, construction, and management of the cumulative degradative exposures of helmet material storage and use. Sectors of the sport headgear industry have implemented ...
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