Earthquakes and Structures

Volume 23, Number 6, 2022, pages 535-547

DOI: 10.12989/eas.2022.23.6.535

Measuring hand kinematics in handball's game: A multi-physics simulation

Kun Qian, Sanaa Al-Kikani and H. Elhosiny Ali

Abstract

Handball sport, as its name postulates, is a team sport which highly physical workout. During a handball play, several ball impacts are applied on the hands resulting vibration in the forearm, upper arm, shoulders and in general in whole body. Hand has important role in the handball's game. So, understanding about the dynamics and some issues that improve the stability of the hand is important in the sport engineering field. Ulna and radius are two parallel bones in lower arm of human hand which their ends are located in elbow and wrist joint. The type of the joint provides the capability of rotation of the lower arm. These two bones with their ends conditions in the joints constructs a 4-link frame. The ulna is slightly thinner than radius. So, understanding about hand kinematics in handball's game is an important thing in the engineering field. So, in the current work with the aid of a multi-physics simulation, dynamic stability analysis of the ulna and radius bones will be presented in detail.

Key Words

dynamic stability; hand kinematics; handball's game; mathematical modeling; multi-physics simulation

Address

Kun Qian: College of Sports Science, Shenyang Normal University, Shenyang 110034, Liaoning, China Sanaa Al-Kikani: Department of Physical Education and Sport Science, Al-Mustaqbal University College, 51001 Hillah, Babylon, Iraq H. Elhosiny Ali: Research Center for Advanced Materials Science (RCAMS), King Khalid University, Abha 61413, Saudi Arabia Department of Physics, King Khalid University, Abha 61413, Saudi Arabia Physics Department, Faculty of Science, Zagazig University, 44519 Zagazig, Egypt