Worcester Polytechnic Institute Digital WPI Major Qualifying Projects (All Years) Major Qualifying Projects April 2019 Ski Binding Suspension System for Vertical Load Transmission Connor H. O'Neill Worcester Polytechnic Institute Kendra S. O'Malley Worcester Polytechnic Institute Madison Marie Healey Worcester Polytechnic Institute Matthew ewelN l Worcester Polytechnic Institute Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.wpi.edu/mqp-all Repository Citation O'Neill, C. H., O'Malley, K. S., Healey, M. M., & Newell, M. (2019). Ski Binding Suspension System for Vertical Load Transmission. Retrieved from https://digitalcommons.wpi.edu/mqp-all/6815 This Unrestricted is brought to you for free and open access by the Major Qualifying Projects at Digital WPI. It has been accepted for inclusion in Major Qualifying Projects (All Years) by an authorized administrator of Digital WPI. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Ski Binding Suspension System for Vertical Load Transmission A Major Qualifying Project Report submitted to the faculty of Worcester Polytechnic Institute in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Bachelor of Science. Submitted By: Madison Healey, Matthew Newell, Kendra O’Malley, and Connor O’Neill Advisor: Christopher A. Brown ABSTRACT The objective of this project is to use axiomatic design to design, prototype, and test a plate to absorb vertical loads to reduce anterior cruciate ligament (ACL), tibial plateau, and back injuries and avoid inadvertent heel release, by absorbing vertical loads and fore-aft torques while skiing. Conventional bindings do not protect against these three injuries, which can be expensive and keep people from skiing. One of the two main ACL injury mechanisms is the boot induced anterior drawer (BIAD), where an anterior shear load at the knee is produced by a forward torque transmitted from the tail of the ski, through a boot stiff in backward lean (Bere et al., 2011; Webster and Brown 1996).