{"id":10036,"date":"2017-10-23T08:45:01","date_gmt":"2017-10-23T16:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2017\/10\/23\/news-3809\/"},"modified":"2017-10-23T08:45:01","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T16:45:01","slug":"news-3809","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2017\/10\/23\/news-3809\/","title":{"rendered":"Squeaky Shoes Are Ruining My Life and Big Sneaker Design Is to Blame"},"content":{"rendered":"

Credit to Author: Caroline Haskins| Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2017 16:30:00 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n

My new sneakers won’t stop squeaking and it’s ruining my life. <\/p>\n

An ear-screeching siren announces my entrance to a room. Eyes dart to me before politely looking away. After wearing them almost every day to break them in, there’s been almost no improvement.<\/p>\n

I need an explanation. <\/p>\n

The problem is obviously in the rubber part of the shoe. If the squeak was from the inside<\/a> of my shoe (between my foot and the sole), the squeak would be slightly muffled, like a high-pitched fart. <\/p>\n

Thankfully, it does not sound like I am constantly farting. <\/p>\n

After spending the last hour researching, I learned that there’s a design flaw in sneakers that causes squeaking. <\/p>\n

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Image: Martyn Shorten & Xia Xi<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

BioMechanica researchers Martyn Shorten and Xia Xi figured out that distinct squeaking sounds are caused by the herringbone\u2014the geometric patterns<\/a> carved into the bottom of a shoe for traction.<\/p>\n

When something flexible moves against something hard, the flexible object vibrates, which is known as the “stick-slip phenomena<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

Herringbones are rubbery and flexible. When shoes slide across a hard surface like wood, air jams into the herringbone’s cracks, causing vibration. The vibration creates a dreadful squeak. <\/p>\n

“Shoes with different sole patterns elicit squeaks with a characteristic frequency,” the study reads. “Also, squeaks appear to occur at the beginning and end of ground contact.”<\/p>\n

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The herringbone of one of my sneakers.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

There’s a way to make shoes that don’t squeak, according to a New York Times<\/i> interview<\/a> with Nike Basketball Footwear Design Director Leo Chang. Unfortunately, players didn’t like these shoes in tests.<\/p>\n

“The squeak is reassurance to a lot of players,” Chang said. “They listen for it. It gives them that audio sense of reassurance that they’re sticking.”<\/p>\n

Converse maintained<\/a> its basketball shoe design even after marketing to the masses. <\/p>\n

Basically, shoe shrieking is engrained in basketball culture, and now everybody else has to suffer.<\/p>\n

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Credit to Author: Caroline Haskins| Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2017 16:30:00 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n

The science of squeaky sneakers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[10643,13328,10378],"tags":[351,16014,16015,13620,16017,16016],"class_list":["post-10036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-independent","category-motherboard","category-security","tag-basketball","tag-converse","tag-rubber","tag-sneakers","tag-squeak","tag-traction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}