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Maintenance of Artificial Turf Surfaces
Maintenance regimes influence pitch performance, player safety
and surface longevity
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Maintenance?
Not the correct approach!
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Agenda
1. Artificial Turf Systems Overview of Systems and Usage Patterns
2. Owner/Operator Maintenance Regular Activities
3. Specialist Maintenance Less-frequent Activities
4. FIFA Maintenance Study
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Artificial Turf Systems
Construction Details • Short-pile non-filled (e.g. field hockey) • Short-to-medium pile filled (e.g. multisport,
court sport) • Medium-pile filled on elastic layer (e.g.
soccer) • Long-pile filled on road-base (e.g. football) • Long-pile filled on elastic layer (e.g. rugby)
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3rd Generation Artificial Turf
Yarn pile
Performance infill
Stabiliza4on infill
Backing materials
Sub-‐base layer
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3rd Generation Artificial Turf
Yarn pile
Performance infill
Stabiliza4on infill
Backing materials
Elas4c layer
Sub-‐base layer
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Usage Patterns
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Usage Patterns
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Agenda
1. Artificial Turf Systems Overview of Systems and Usage Patterns
2. Owner/Operator Maintenance Regular Activities
3. Specialist Maintenance Less-frequent Activities
4. FIFA Maintenance Study
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Regular Maintenance Activity
Owner/operator tasks • Keeping surface clean • Keeping infill leveled in high use-areas • Brushing the surface fiber
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Regular Maintenance Activity
Maintenance Type Maintenance Ac:vity Daily (a=er 8-‐10 hrs of playing ac:vity)
General Inspec:on and Service Work (typically combined with pitch setup, i.e. soccer net setup, corner flag placement)
Remove surface dirt/liHer ✔
Check lines and seams ✔
Check infill levels in high-‐use areas
✔
Check penalty spots ✔
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Regular Maintenance Activity
Maintenance Type Maintenance Ac:vity Weekly (a=er 40-‐60 hrs of playing ac:vity)
Service Work on turf and performance infill
Brushing of synthe4c turf ✔
Leveling of performance infill
✔
Retopping of performance infill (in high use areas)
as required
Decompac4on of performance infill (in high use areas)
as required
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Regular Maintenance Activity
Equipment • Drag brush • Triangle brush • Light equipment
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Regular Maintenance Activity
Correct Brush Setting • Too high • Too low • Correct
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Brushing Direction
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Regular Maintenance Activity
Surface Performance Testing • Ball roll testing • Ball rebound testing
Important: Maintenance activity required to occur earlier in case surface testing indicates
deterioration of performance characteristics
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Agenda
1. Artificial Turf Systems Overview of Systems and Usage Patterns
2. Owner/Operator Maintenance Regular Activities
3. Specialist Maintenance Less-frequent Activities
4. FIFA Maintenance Study
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Specialist Maintenance Activity
Less Frequent Tasks across entire pitch • Retopping of performance infill • Decompaction of performance infill • Deep cleaning
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Specialist Maintenance Activity
Field Deep Cleaning Use of specialist equipment capable of: • Removing proportion of infill materials • Cleaning infill material • Re-introducing material back into surface
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Specialist Maintenance Activity
Equipment • Pull-behind tractor equipment • Specialized field cleaning equipment
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Specialist Maintenance Activity
Maintenance Type Maintenance Ac:vity Bi-‐annually (a=er 1,200 -‐1,500 hrs of playing ac:vity)
Service Work on turf and performance infill (across en4re pitch area)
Retopping of performance infill
✔
Decompac4on of performance infill
✔
Maintenance Type Maintenance Ac:vity Annually (a=er 2,400 hrs of playing ac:vity)
Special Maintenance work (across en4re pitch area)
Deep cleaning ✔
Important: Maintenance activity required to occur earlier in case surface testing indicates deterioration of performance
characteristics
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Regular Maintenance Activity
Decompaction Setting • Too high • Too low • Correct
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Agenda
1. Artificial Turf Systems Overview of Systems and Usage Patterns
2. Owner/Operator Maintenance Regular Activities
3. Specialist Maintenance Less-frequent Activities
4. FIFA Maintenance Study
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FIFA Maintenance Study
FIFA Test Procedure Maintenance Effect
Ball rebound Performance infill, fiber
Ball roll Fiber
Force reduc4on Performance infill
Deforma4on Performance infill
Rota4onal resistance Fiber
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FIFA Maintenance Study
Approach: Divided pitch into 4 quadrants to test 4 maintenance methods • Oscillating brush • Rotary brush • Drag brush – steel rake • Triangular brush
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FIFA Maintenance Study
Measurements in each quadrant 1. Performance test 2. Playing activity 3. Maintenance 4. Performance test 5. Playing activity 6. Performance test (after no maintenance)
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FIFA Maintenance Study
General results • Oscillating brush best result/best
improvement • Triangle brush least results/improvement • Any maintenance better than none
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FIFA Maintenance Study
Ball Rebound • No significant differences between 4
approaches • Without maintenance, pitches with
shockpads retained parameter better
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FIFA Maintenance Study
Deformation • Drag brush/steel rake with greatest overall
improvement • Small variances between various methods
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FIFA Maintenance Study
Force Reduction • Best results with rotary brush • Without maintenance only pitches with
shockpads retained parameters within FIFA Quality Program requirements
• Impossible to return non-shockpad pitches to their original force reduction
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FIFA Maintenance Study
Conclusions • Maintenance improves performance and
safety • Most significant improvements on ball roll • Maintenance frequency depends on
playing hours • Specialist maintenance equipment have
significant influence on specific characteristics
• Without regular maintenance only minor performance improvements possible
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