Sports Engineering Facilities
We have a range of facilities and equipment suited to sports engineering research, including wind tunnels and motion capture systems.
Sports engineering laboratory
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Our sports engineering laboratory enables the study of sports performance, aerodynamics, injury prevention and rehabilitation. It features a range of equipment, including:
- 3D analysis system for modelling and simulating human movement
- 3D Vicon 12 camera high-speed motion capture system
- oxygen analysis system for measuring uptake and output during exercise
- electromyography analysis to measure muscle activity
- force platform for measuring ground reaction forces
- Kistler force plate for gait and balance analysis
- Delsys EMG system to study motor control
- WattBike
- Cosmed portable metabolic system for metabolic and clinical exercise testing
- high-speed camera
- thermal imaging camera
- Natural Point 3D Motion Capture System to measure movement
- Sensorize 3D inertial measurement sensors (with GPS).
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Wind tunnels
We have access to an industrial scale wind tunnel for testing aerodynamics.
The Adelaide Wind Tunnel research and testing facility is South Australia’s only industrial-scale wind tunnel, and the second largest in Australia.
The state-of-the-art facility has a wide range of purposes and can be used for all kinds of wind engineering and aerodynamics testing.
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Other sports engineering facilities and equipment
Through the School of Mechanical Engineering, we have access to a range of facilities and equipment for sports engineering research. These include:
- water tunnels
- full range of fluid velocity and pressure measurement systems
- spectrum analysers
- microphones, accelerometers, displacement transducers, strain gauges
- polytech scanning laser vibrometers - 3-D and 1-D
- numerous vibration shakers, strain measurement and development tools
- ANSYS Fluent and OpenFoam CFD software
- instrumentation and mechanical workshops.
Contact us
If you are interested in using this facility, please contact us. We will be in touch as soon as possible.