Puma | Xetic Basketball
Nowadays performance sport products are becoming more complex each day and aspects such as customization, ergonomics, functionality and aesthetics are gaining more attention. In order to meet these requirements, design processes need to become more efficient to put on the market more competitive products in a short amount of time.
Digital tools such as computational design and finite element analysis has the potential to allow upcoming footwear developments to be virtually designed and evaluated, removing the quantity of human tests and physical prototyping.
This study aims to develop and validate a design framework for footwear development, with the use of digital tools and CAE techniques. This framework starts with the use of computational design combining parametric modeling, 3D modeling and multi-data point to create a large number of permutations that could generate multiple design solutions. Once that these solutions are narrowed down an optimization task with FEA is implemented.
Xetic Basketball is the case study to be analyzed under this design framework, project that brings auxetic pattern performance into the basketball game and with the use of a novel dynamic finite element analysis a virtual design validation of a basketball shoe can be perform in the three most dynamic basketball movements running, landing and cutting.
Visit the Xetic running project also named Calibrate runner.