title: Analytical design of iron golf club heads.
abstract: This paper describes an analytical method for the design of iron golf club heads. The method divides the club head into the basic shape and the back-weighting. The basic shape, which consists of the club face profile, hosel and club face-hosel blend section, is configured directly from geometric specifications. An adaptive random search optimization algorithm is employed to design the back-weighting to obtain desired mass properties for the club head. The designer has control of the general configuration of the back-weighting through the method of geometric influencing. Several dynamically equivalent iron club heads are presented that were designed using this method.
authors.affiliation: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Lafayette College, Easton, PA 18042, USA.
authors.forename: T A
authors.initials: TA
authors.lastname: Hartzell
authors.forename: S M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Nesbit
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D003198:Computer Simulation; D017076:Computer-Aided Design; D004867:Equipment Design / Q000379:methods; D006055:Golf; D006801:Humans; D008433:Mathematics; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D012984:Software; D013499:Surface Properties