Development of Silicone Elastomer for Use in the Assessment of Padded Clothing in Rugby Union

Development of Silicone Elastomer for Use in the Assessment of Padded Clothing in Rugby Union

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Rugby Union is a collision sport, with both player to player and player to pitch impacts being frequent.Current test standards for padded clothing in rugby use impact surrogates, which may not accurately replicate the human response.Modern technologies use silicone elastomers to represent human soft tissue when testing padding, however many commercially available silicones do not match the load response seen by human Patio Sectional tissue.

This paper describes the fabrication and validation of a bespoke formulation Electronics Accessories of commercially available silicone elastomer and deadener concentrations that portray a similar load response to relaxed organic muscle tissue.The mechanical responses, both at quasi-static and dynamic strain rates, have been compared, with improved, more representative behaviour being presented.The validation of this silicone elastomer formulation is important in developing a more biofidelic impact surrogate for the assessment of padded clothing in rugby.