Titanium in Sport: Calculation & Ideas

[Michaelcarson11]

I have been asked to make a presentation at school about titanium and I have decided to do it with respect to its use in sport. The only problem that I am having is with trying to do some sort of calculation to calculate the required elastic modulus/ tensile strength/ hardness value required for a specific use. I was thinking of trying to calculate the force dissipated by the titanium grille of a cricket helmet.

Has anybody got any better ideas or can help me with this calculation??

 

[Astronuc]

Try matweb and search the alloy selector for titanium alloys.

e.g. http://www.matweb.com/search/SpecificMaterial.asp?bassnum=MTA321

or try these supplier pages

http://www.timet.com/pdfs/alloys.pdf - use 'save target as'

http://www.allvac.com/allvac/pages/Titanium/Default.htm