Finite element analysis of footwear and ground interaction

Sun, Z, Howard, D ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1738-0698 and Moatamedi, M 2005, 'Finite element analysis of footwear and ground interaction' , Strain, 41 (3) , pp. 113-117.

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Abstract

Military boots are designed to prevent the soft tissue and skeletal structure of the feet from damage under heavy usage. Good slip-resistant tread patterns of the outer-sole are vital to minimise the risk or severity of slipping under demanding conditions, most likely to result in accidents. However, boot design should also offer the customer flexibility, comfort, and shock absorption, be lightweight and be able to operate regardless of the ground surface texture and various weather conditions. The issue of footwear and ground interaction investigated in this study can be classified as a traditional stability problem. Solutions to these problems are often obtained using the theory of perfect plasticity. Therefore, elastic–perfectly plastic theory was adopted in this study and the Drucker-Prager (DP) material model was chosen to model the soil properties. Literature survey showed that little studies exist on the subject of interaction between foot and soft ground, in particular, using numerical modelling methods. However, there are numerous research works on some relevant domains, such as soil–tillage tool interaction, soil–wheel interaction and soil–structure interaction, etc. A three-dimensional finite-element (FE) analysis of a subsoiler cutting with pressurised air injection was performed by employing a DP harden material model without consideration of friction force by Araya and Gao [1]. Saliba [2] undertook elastic–viscoplastic FE modelling for tire/soil interaction and Mouazen and Nemenyi [3, 4] adopted a DP model for analysing soil–tillage tool interaction.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	The definitive version is available at www.blackwell-synergy.com
Themes:	Subjects / Themes > Q Science > Q Science (General) Subjects outside of the University Themes
Schools:	Schools > School of Computing, Science and Engineering Schools > School of Computing, Science and Engineering > Salford Innovation Research Centre Schools > School of Health and Society > Centre for Health Sciences Research
Journal or Publication Title:	Strain
Publisher:	Blackwell Publishing
Refereed:	Yes
ISSN:	00392103
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Depositing User:	H Kenna
Date Deposited:	23 Aug 2007 09:37
Last Modified:	15 Feb 2022 15:13
URI:	https://usir.salford.ac.uk/id/eprint/321

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