High Technology Swimwear

High Technology Swimwear

Product application:

How does a swimmer improve the speed in the water? The answer may be that do more practice. However with the development of the technology, there is one thing that has totally changed that mindset forever, that is the high-technology swimwear. The high-technology swimwear is designed and manufactured for swimmers to swim faster in high competitive swimming sports. Some studies showed that wearing high-technology swimsuit can reduce the drag up to 4% and even increase the speed by 3% to 7%.

The Fastskin is one of the most well-known swimsuits manufactured by the sports equipment company Speedo, with wearing this skin, Michael Phelps who is regarded as the greatest swimmer in history who won eight medals during 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. At the same time, he also broke 7 world records and 1 Olympic record. From that on, the high technology swimsuit sparked a storm of breaking records in swimming competitions. There were more than 160 world records have been broken during 2008 and 2009.

Properties in this product:

When people are swimming, apart from the swimming technique of individual, there is another important factor affecting the speed, which is the drag of body. Therefore, the properties of the high technology swimwear are also designed based on how to reduce the drag.

First the high technology swimwear will fit swimmer’s body tightly, but still stretch comfortably because the tight fits can help swimmer to move easily and prevent the muscle from oscillating in the water. Unnecessary gesture and muscle oscillation will increase the drag in water. Hence it will save the energy for swimmer and reduce the drag.

Secondly, the surface of the swimwear mimicked from the s...

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...it until the high technology swimwear appear. Therefore with the popularity of the swimming sports and the need for speed, the processing manufacture will be focus on the material used and the innovation of design. For example, develop the structure of the polymer to synthesis better characteristic polymers instead of nylon and spandex. Or find other materials to directly replace the nylon and spandex. Besides in terms of the study of bionics, design the surface of swimwear from other marine life. Furthermore design and manufacture based on the computer-assisted should be increase.

Works Cited

http://www.madehow.com/Volume-4/Spandex.html

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-speedo-created-swimsuit/

http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-the-speedo-fastskin.htm

http://aquaticregister.wordpress.com/2013/06/04/290/