PROJECT SYNOPSIS

Reg. No. 2013/338

Name H. A. C. Hapuarachchi
Project Title Stress and Thermal analysis based optimized design for Cricket helmet

01. Introduction
Cricket helmet is the most important Personal Protective Equipment used in Cricket for
reduces the risk of impact for most critical and vulnerable part of the human body called
head. This helmet should be safer and comfortable. Stress and thermal comfort analyses are
used for that purpose.

02. Problems in current using helmet

According to the official website of Guinness World Records, the highest speed of a ball
which is electronically measured is 161.3km/h (100.23mph) by Shoib Akhtar (Pakistan) in
2003 in World Cup match in South Africa. Thus, a ball may dissipate a very high amount of
kinetic energy at the time of impact instance and rapid head acceleration and neck movement.
The energy dissipated by an average ball may in range 80J-150J.

There are so many effects to helmet,

Effects of head impacts by the cricket ball,

 Head injuries
 Linear acceleration of the head
 Angular acceleration of the head

Effects of thermal discomforts

 Heat related illnesses

 Effect on cognitive performance
 Head dissipated from the head
 Heat transfer from the helmet to environment
 Effects of air flow on thermal comfort

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03. Aim

To propose an optimized Cricket helmet for safety and thermal comfort.

04. Objectives

 To analyze currently used helmet for their performance in relation to impact effect
mitigation and thermal comfort.
 To developed conceptual design and analyze for stress and distribution under impact
load and thermal effects.
 To compared the performance of conceptual design and existing design.

05. Methodology

There are several ways to analyze the stress and thermal comfort. Mainly this is base on
research type. Several books, websites and human resource used to done this project. Current
using Cricket helmet design used this analysis and materials, design, dimensions, strength
and finite element methods considered for this project. Finally, conceptual design introduced
for overcome remaining limitations.

06. Outcome

Introduced high strength, more safer and more thermal comfort conceptual helmet.

Supervisor’ Name Mrs. Sattar

Signature
Date

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