Running Shoes Essay

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1.1 INTRODUCTION

This project is about the study on running shoes for world class championship. First the running shoe is particularly use in long-distance and also short distance running on hard and or uneven paths, streets or the like. The most famous shoes producers and brand for world championship shoes production are Nike, Adidas, Reebok, Puma, Converse, New balance, Fila, K-Swiss, Asics and others. All of this brands competing each other to produce the best and up to date shoes in order to gain the customers loyalty.Every shoes have three different sole which are sometime made up from different material to satisfy the customers. Of course every material have their own different function. The most important parts of running shoes are upper part of shoe, insole, midsole and outsole. According to Kenneth W. Graham, Edward J. Norton, and Shuhei Kurata(1985), the stabilizer supported by sole unit to surround upper within the region of the heel to provide support for the upper of the footwear. Armin A. Dassler (1983) said with an absorbs impacts outsole soft resilient material, which on its drive side a profile is made of wear-resistant material, with certain areas of the outsole are made for more flexible than the remaining sole areas. Armin A. Dassler (1983) also said that the character in that outsole regions of differing compliance only in the heel and possibly also in the joint are present, the arrangement being such that the heel and possibly the joint region with lesser compliance on the inside of the outsole starts and up to the maximum through the sole longitudinal axis extending the central plane of the running sole. So, what make materials and characteristics are important in this project will be sorted out for every ...

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...ts. Those processes of making running shoes are supposed to be in order. Originally, shoes were made by hand before. but then the Traditional handicraft shoemaking has been largely replaced in volume of shoes produced by industrial mass production of footwear, but not necessarily in quality, attention to detail, or craftsmanship. Thus, in this project the technologies use for making the running shoes will be discussed.

The upper part, and sole part design attempts to maximize the factors of durability, stability, and flexibility while maintaining the lightest possible weight. Ronald C. Yonkers (1982) said, this is accomplished by relating the structural design of the outer sole to a load analysis at the interface between the sole and ground during running. In this project,we will discussed every possible way to overcome the problems and to fulfill the objectives.

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