The goal of this project is to ensure the safety of a world-wide popular extreme sports, bungee jumping. Based on our self-designed model, the project simulated the dynamic process when a jumper dives off from a height and to determine some safety-related quantities such as the maximum diving distance and the maximum tension developed in the jumping cord. Various spring and damping models were employed for a general discussion. Other health concerns induced by bungee jumping were also studied and some precautions were provided. The project may provide the industry with fundamental understandings of the bungee jumping process and a MATLAB based numerical tool to simulate the process on site.

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Creator

• Li, Yanchen
• Lu, Zhengyuan

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-042313-150806

Advisor

• Hou, Zhikun

Year

• 2013

Date created

• 2013-04-23

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Mechanical Engineering

Rights statement

• In Copyright