This project evaluates surface roughness and its influence on impacts between a golf club head and golf ball. A repeatable test was created by dropping golf ball on inclined and roughened stainless steel plates. A confocal microscope was used to measure the topographies which were evaluated with conventional and multi-scale analyses. Impact forces were measured with a piezoelectric dynamometer. The coefficient of friction was calculated from simultaneously recorded normal and tangential forces.

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Creator

• Han, Mengxi

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-092916-021457

Advisor

• Brown, Christopher A.

Year

• 2016

Date created

• 2016-09-29

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Mechanical Engineering

Rights statement

• In Copyright