Abstract des Autors

The desired roles of ski wax can be summarized as low friction property, high hydrophobicity, and high durability. Among them, the durability is the most important for long distance-skiing such as cross-country. In order to develop a novel wax which shows higher durability, we applied experiment-integrated computational chemistry methods at first to ski wax penetration phenomena. So far the experiment-integrated computational chemistry simulation methods have been developed and applied to a wide variety of industrial problems like various battery systems, electronics packaging, automobile, and so on. In the present study, the experiment-integrated computational modeling of a realistic running surface (ski sole) in mesoscopic scale and the wax penetration simulation to the realistic model have been developed to calculate how ski wax penetrates the ski sole.